Comments on: Scope/Context in Javascript http://ryanmorr.com/archives/scope-context-in-javascript JavaScript, CSS, and Web Apps Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:56:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Martin http://ryanmorr.com/archives/scope-context-in-javascript/comment-page-1#comment-1119 Martin Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:32:32 +0000 http://ryanmorr.com/?p=464#comment-1119 Wow... I am amazed at how screwed up the Javascript specification is. Coming from C++ and Java where elegant taxonomies are defined, I can only think of writing Javascript as to building a new car from puddy. Every dent, ding and mis-alignment is not only permitted, but touted as a feature. It is precisely for the features you've elucidated above that prototype based languages are not ubiquitous in their use. I would be embarrassed had I sat on this ECMA committee and had this disaster known as Javascript, attributed in any part, to me. Wow… I am amazed at how screwed up the Javascript specification is. Coming from C++ and Java where elegant taxonomies are defined, I can only think of writing Javascript as to building a new car from puddy. Every dent, ding and mis-alignment is not only permitted, but touted as a feature. It is precisely for the features you’ve elucidated above that prototype based languages are not ubiquitous in their use.

I would be embarrassed had I sat on this ECMA committee and had this disaster known as Javascript, attributed in any part, to me.

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