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> If there’s one language guilty of causing brain damage it’s surely JavaScript

Hahaha. I largely consider JavaScript to be the new BASIC - not because you can learn how to do some fun or useful things with it in an afternoon, but because it is ubiquitous. Web browsers are everywhere, and nearly all of them have JavaScript. A lot of JavaScript's quirkiness and inconvenience seems to derive from its web browser/DOM environment. (It's probably still easier to write GUI apps in Visual BASIC.)

Also: I'm still disappointed that Python 3 removed the print statement, so that

    print "hello, world!"

is no longer a program that works both in BASIC and in Python.