Why JavaScript is Insane. Reason 26
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6 ways to declare JavaScript functions[^] and the related Function Declarations vs. Function Expressions[^] Is anyone learning JavaScript at a school or college? If so do they go into this stuff or just navigate around it and give you a best-practices approach to JavaScript coding? I'm always curious as to how knowledge of these ancient arts is passed down in a way that lets people move on sanely.
cheers Chris Maunder
JavaScript is such a mess that in the past few months while writing some code that should have been simple, loading configuration before starting listening for user requests, I caught myself thinking that what I was doing would have been trivial if I was writing it in C. Add a decent HTTP library or *cgi server and the rest of it wouldn't have been too difficult either. I'm pretty convinced that no one who says anything good about JavaScript has ever even tried to read the ECMAScript specification.
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6 ways to declare JavaScript functions[^] and the related Function Declarations vs. Function Expressions[^] Is anyone learning JavaScript at a school or college? If so do they go into this stuff or just navigate around it and give you a best-practices approach to JavaScript coding? I'm always curious as to how knowledge of these ancient arts is passed down in a way that lets people move on sanely.
cheers Chris Maunder