The rise and rise of JavaScript « DanNorth.net: "JavaScript has been around for a long time, and it has the scars and stories to prove it. As languages go it has more than its fair share of corner cases, incompatibility issues, frustrations and quirks. It’s an easy language to knock: it was hit with the same ugly stick as the other curly bracket languages, it’s more verbose than other dynamic languages like ruby or python, and if you can look at a piece of code and tell me what the value of the implicit this variable will be, well, you should be getting out more. (Ok, I’m being mean here. Nowadays I usually know what the value of this will be, but let’s just say it isn’t exactly obvious to a novice.)"
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