Javascript Quotes

• Javascript is the duct tape of the Internet.

  Charlie Campbell

  Tape, Internet, Duct Tape

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• JavaScript is the only language that I'm aware of that people feel they don't need to learn before they start using it.

  Douglas Crockford

  People, Needs, Language

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• In JavaScript, there is a beautiful, elegant, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders.

  Douglas Crockford

  Beautiful, Good Intentions, Language

  Douglas Crockford (2008). “JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts”, p.2, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• JavaScript is the world's most misunderstood programming language.

  Douglas Crockford

  Misunderstood, World, Language

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• The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its variants, or XML, will continue to become more central.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Aggravation, Kind, Decline

  "The future according to Dennis Ritchie". Interview with Danny Kalev, www.itworld.com. December 20, 2000.

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• I have been writing JavaScript for 8 years now, and I have never once found need to use an uber function. The super idea is fairly important in the classical pattern, but it appears to be unnecessary in the prototypal and functional patterns. I now see my early attempts to support the classical model in JavaScript as a mistake.

  Douglas Crockford

  Mistake, Writing, Ideas

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• If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing is, from a language point of view, JavaScript has a lot in common with Python, but it is sort of a restricted subset.

  Guido van Rossum

  Python, Views, Talking

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• A language like Ruby is a toolbox with some really neat little tools that do their job really nicely. JavaScript is a leather sheath with a really really sharp knife inside. That knife can cut anything, and with it you can do anything. You can kill a bear. You can catch fish. You can whittle a piece of wood into a pony. It's even a toothpick.

  Nick Morgan

  Jobs, Cutting, Knives

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