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Discussion on: JavaScript, the worst programming language on the planet

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anstroy profile image
Aus G

Dude!

Asp.net was created on an airplane by Scott Guthrie.

Apple started on a garage.

Microsoft as well inside a garage.

Great things started small...

Yes it is messy! But it is definitely not the worst at all! The only goal of a programming language is to develop stuff and we have billions of apps being developed in JS right now.

Remember that "Software ate the world, the web ate software, and JavaScript ate the web." source

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Thomas Hansen

Asp.net was created on an airplane by Scott Guthrie

I didn't know. Do you have a source? I believe you, I'd just love to read the story. Loved your quote :)

Great things started small

I don't disagree, and JavaScript has a lot of nice things going for it. However, if we believe things are perfect there is no room for improvement. A lot of kids learning to create software today believe things are perfect as is; OO, JS, you name it. I'm just there to remind them it's not ... ;)

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anstroy profile image
Aus G

Sure, codemag.com/Article/1203013/ASP.NE... and just do a CTRL + F and lookup for "Austin"

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Thomas Hansen

Thx, that was ASP.NET MVC though and not ASP.NET. The latter is a much larger project. Still an interesting story ...