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by b0rsuk 2382 days ago
The meaning of the second paragraph was ambiguous. Aside from Javascript dislike, which I don't pretend to deny, I believe learning new things is mind-expanding.

When an intriguing movie - or book - comes out, it's often intriguing because it's quite different. When you convert it to a common language - or Hollywood - it becomes less different. Reading "Working With Legacy Code" forced me to absorb some C#, but it also allowed me an opportunity to compare it with Java, which I learned at university.

What I understand from this is that people didn't really value Python as a pseudocode language. It was just fashionable at the time. Now it's Javascript's time. I wonder what's going to be next? Golang has a chance.

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> forced me to absorb some C#

This book will force you to absorb some pure, functional JavaScript. There's so much more to programming than "what language is it written in".