Another great JavaScript article

3 April, 2007. It was a Tuesday.

Sorry all, I’ll probably be over this JavaScript tear soon enough, but now that I’ve given the language another glance it has really caught my eye this time. I can only explain my recent engagement with the language as a total re-discovery. I’ve done some js OO before in the past, but looking at the language completely outside of a web development context has really helped my make a paradigm shift. It’s been kind of like when I was scripting in sed then discovered perl.

Here’s a really good js article: http://simon.incutio.com/slides/2006/etech/javascript/js-reintroduction-notes.html

I couldn’t agree more with the author, Simon Willison, when he says “…JavaScript has a reasonable claim to being the world’s most misunderstood programming language.”

Again, the author focuses on js from a web developer viewpoint, but I really think its potential is undervalued when it comes to using the language as a tool for system tools. I just have to find a better way of managing script libraries…

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