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Re:If programming languages were religions by IsaacSchlueter on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @06:07PM (#400247)
Javascript would be some kind of new-agey pop religion.

It looks at first like Christianity or Judaism, but it somehow brings in funky zen concepts like lambdas and prototype chains. No one really took it seriously, then one day, it was just everywhere. No two implementations are quite the same, and most people do it horribly.

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Re:If programming languages were religions by nuclear_eclipse on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @06:53PM (#400294)
So, Astrology?
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Re:If programming languages were religions by IsaacSchlueter on Wednesday December 17, 2008 @07:30PM (#401645)
Maybe… disclaimer: I'm a professional javascripter

1. Everyone knows it a little, but few actually use it for much, and hardly anyone really understands it.

2. A lot of the ideas came out of old tribal warfare, and was only standardized relatively recently.

3. People who do it full time are WAY overpaid. ;)

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Re:If programming languages were religions by herval on Saturday December 20, 2008 @04:40PM (#404838)
does anyone really do javascript fulltime...? It sounds to me like doing CSS fulltime. Or writing XML configuration files for a living. Or something...
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