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Re:The original Javascript impl was written in Lisp by tree_of_item on Saturday November 26, 2011 @04:17AM (#3279487)
Isn't that bad compared to...the language it was supposedly implemented in? Yes, yes it is that bad.
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Re:The original Javascript impl was written in Lisp by tikhonj on Saturday November 26, 2011 @04:40AM (#3279511)
I'm not saying JavaScript isn't worse than Lisp: I just think that describing it as "enslaving generations of programmers" is a bit much.
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