Wow, great write up. Made me actually laugh out loud.
If I didn't already love JavaScript, I would steer clear. It sounds like a language somebody conceived of and implemented in like ten days with no forethought or planning.
Reminds me how relevant Douglas Crockford's "JavaScript, The Good Parts" still is.
I think JavaScript is brilliantly well done. Regardless of the whole, "10 days and no forethought", I think Brendan Eich did a lot right.
I think he understood way better than many other programmers how important it is in the browser to have a fault tolerant language that does as much as possible to prevent the UI from crashing on a user.
I think most of the "quirks" or "weirdnesses" in JavaScript can be explained as being quite intentional because Eich was trying to make a language that wouldn't punish the end user for the developer's mistakes.
Wow, great write up. Made me actually laugh out loud.
If I didn't already love JavaScript, I would steer clear. It sounds like a language somebody conceived of and implemented in like ten days with no forethought or planning.
Reminds me how relevant Douglas Crockford's "JavaScript, The Good Parts" still is.
Thank you!
I think JavaScript is brilliantly well done. Regardless of the whole, "10 days and no forethought", I think Brendan Eich did a lot right.
I think he understood way better than many other programmers how important it is in the browser to have a fault tolerant language that does as much as possible to prevent the UI from crashing on a user.
I think most of the "quirks" or "weirdnesses" in JavaScript can be explained as being quite intentional because Eich was trying to make a language that wouldn't punish the end user for the developer's mistakes.
Except
Date.and
NaN !== NaN.Those I think he screwed up on.
Ha, indeed. I think you're right.