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Re:Javascript is good enough by anc2020 on Saturday January 31, 2009 @07:57PM (#460314)
> First-class functions - great.

The author magnificently understates how useful closures can be.

Besides this, the author has posted a single complaint about the language (one that I don't find particularly important) and then seems to act as though the language is completely unusable.

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Re:Javascript is good enough by chollida1 on Saturday January 31, 2009 @10:12PM (#460443)
> The author magnificently understates how useful closures can be.

I didn't see a reference to closures in the article.

I know you probably know this but first class functions aren't closures.

The wikipedia article for them doesn't even mention closures: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-class_function

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Re:Javascript is good enough by anc2020 on Wednesday February 04, 2009 @10:39AM (#465855)
This is a post about JavaScript as a whole, and so I can only hope he meant "first class functions and closures". If he didn't, well that would be even more worrying.
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