Should JavaScript Get More Respect?

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."

Comments

easy answer: NO

[Adolf Hitroll]

This is a flamebait
This is the truth because:

• It dealls with a loser
  
• Which is retarded
  
• ...and colored (I just couldn't make it about the guy from the AlBook 17" as I kinda like him)
  

That's why:

• It mustn't be modded "Offtopic" unless the mod is a moron.
  
• It mustn't be modded "Overrated" unless the mod is a poltron.
  
• It mustn't be modded "Funny", unless the mod has no life out of reading it.
  
• It mustn't be published as a story unless somebody gave Taco is poppers back.
  
• It mustn't be erased, unless I forgot to remove the mention concerning Hemos' erroneous abducation of Gary Coleman (for expectedly pedophiliac purposes which turned to be more zoophilic, Gary being the big man in that case).
  
• It mustn't be modded "Insightful" because this makes baby-Jesus cry.
  
• It must be read to prove yourself you've got a life because you also have time to lose.

About the story (so that I cannot be modded down as offtopic by moronic fucks):

1. Whoever submitted this story is an imbecile.
   
2. Whoever published it has no life besides his publishing quotas.
   
3. Whoever hired him is a fat, sweaty, dickless nerd.
   
4. Whoever gave birth to *it* is a sad, dishonoured person.
   
5. Whichever country they grew in is bankrupt and smells like laden bins.
   
6. ...and me, well, I'm none of these retards, just having fun spoiling your surfing experience with that bit of reality.

Have an horrible Xmas/Hanuccah/whatever kind of loser your education's made you worship... Under Gawd. ...MOD THIS DOWN UNLESS YOU'D BETTER HAVE SEX NOW!

LCD

[ComaVN]

the most broadly available scripting language for Web development

The expression you're looking for is Lowest Common Denominator

What a piece of shit that language is.

Re:Why the pressure ?

[masklinn]

Please, you don't have the slightest idea of what you're talking about, just shut up and stop wasting slashdot's database space