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JS is special because it has to be backwards-compatible. It basically contains its entire history, from a PHP-like hack job that started it to the very elegant
by pluma 12y ago
JS is special because it has to be backwards-compatible.
It basically contains its entire history, from a PHP-like hack job that started it to the very elegant ES6/7. It's probably one of the few languages that expose their whole fossil record.
- sacado2 12y agoDon't forget C++. Being older, it accumulated more cruft.