> From: Nick Arnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > > Behalf Of The Fool > > [snip] > > > > > I have absolutely no use for JavaScript, spawn of evil that it is. > > > > > > Hardly. > > > > It is the spawn of satan, the anticrist of the software world. > > > > I havent used java for 5 years, and I havan't missed it. > > Javascript was such a hack... and really has never had anything to do with > Java, except in the eyes of marketing weenies (I can say that, having been > one), except a bit of syntax that it also has in common with most OO > languages.
And it allows the programmer to do inexplicably evil things, like opening windows, deleting entries on the 'back' button / disabling the 'back' button, reading cookies, spawning windows when you try to leave a site, changing the status bar, looking at system/browser settings it shouldn't be allowed to, redirecting, fscking window resizing, etcetera ad nauseum. > I'm intimately familiar with the genesis of Javascript, if > anyone cares to hear about it. Do Tell. > I co-authored the first O'Reilly Javascript > book, which never got into print because the language changed so fast that > our examples were breaking faster than we could fix them...
