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Re:Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs – JavaS... by superdisk on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @11:26AM (#21826458)
Considering everything is being shoved into the web paradigm and written in JS even when it's wildly wrong for the job, I think it fits the description perfectly.
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Re:Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs – JavaS... by braythwayt on Saturday December 21, 2019 @11:10AM (#21851812)
If you really want a blog post to describe how JavaScript is eating the world, I suggest it isn’t “Beating the Averages” by Paul Graham.

It’s actually “Worse is Better” by Richard Gabriel. I don’t think people are writing JavaScript tooling while saying that JS is just as powerful as Haskell or Lisp. What they’re saying is that its ubiquity is valuable and for their use case, ubiquity and network effects trump productivity and/or “power” however we might want to define them.

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Re:Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs – JavaS... by viklove on Thursday December 19, 2019 @01:26PM (#21837675)
> even when it's wildly wrong for the job

Oh, are you the great decider who decrees what we can and can't use certain programming languages for?

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Re:Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs – JavaS... by superdisk on Friday December 20, 2019 @12:59AM (#21842001)
No, but JS certainly wasn't designed for what it's been retooled into doing now. Neither is HTML.
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