Should JavaScript Get More Respect?

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday December 19, 2006 @09:39PM from the ugly-duckling dept.

An anonymous reader points out an article in IBM's Crossing Borders series about the language features of JavaScript, surely the Rodney Dangerfield of scripting languages. But with increasing use in such technologies as Ajax, Apache Cocoon, ActionScript, and Rhino, some industry leaders are taking a fresh look at the language. From the article: "Nearly every Web developer has cursed JavaScript at one time or another. Until recently, many developers had all but written off JavaScript as a necessary evil at best or a toy at worst... But JavaScript is becoming increasingly important, and it remains the most broadly available scripting language for Web development."

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Re:I love the autopointerage & hate the scope by rucs_hack · 2006-12-19 22:29 · Score: 0, Redundant

You may well be right, but

"It's multiparadigm: supporting imperative, object oriented, and template metaprogramming styles"

Is just too geeky for me before my second cup of coffee.