| What? The man who created JSON was writing enterprise patterns? When, how? This the same man who wrote this? > JavaScript has a syntactic similarity to Java, much as Java has to C. But it is no more a subset of Java than Java is a subset of C. It is better than Java in the applications that Java (fka Oak) was originally intended for.
... > This is misleading because JavaScript has more in common with functional languages like Lisp or Scheme than with C or Java. https://www.crockford.com/javascript/javascript.html > We would be making a tragic mistake if we didn’t retain the language’s simplicity. Most of the modifications I would like to make in the language would be to make it even simpler. There’s some cruft on it, and there are some attractive nuisances in it, which we don’t need but which people become dependent on. We’d be better off without that.
https://www.sitepoint.com/interview-doug-crockford/ > A lot of JavaScript’s critics want to go back in the other direction, and make it more Java-like, but I think that would be a bad thing because it would alienate most web developers. So, I’d rather go in the other direction and train our web developers how to be programmers, how to be computer scientists, because you can in this language. This the one? Writes Java in Javascript you say. |