[kalms]

> The two languages are used in very different ways

I thought so too. JavaScript seems like it's filling a gap, and by doing that it's ensuring its own survival. Either that, or we're forcing it into a specific purpose (i.e event based manipulation, animation, data i/o), but the end result will probably be the same. I have a hard time imagining something else coming along, at least not as long as JavaScript is... well, everywhere.

Thank you for explaining Perl to me. A proper module system, compile-time checking and the sort has, with JavaScript, been solved by using JSLint and AMD. Well, almost. It makes the code easier to maintain. Although I'm sure Perl is superior in that regard, it still works - and it works really well.