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Discussion on: What is the most influential programming language you have learned?

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Thoby V ijishakin

JavaScript was the real deal for me. I've learnt PHP and Java to some extent far back that I realize JavaScript teaches a developer atleast to some extent to be careful and advocates what happens beyond the interpreter.

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Shawn McElroy

A friend likes to say that JS is a good language for new programmers, and i disagree. It is so unstructured its hard to follow. Granted, ES6 made that way better. But I feel like JS has a lot of hidden warts that make you go WTF?

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Thoby V ijishakin • Edited

Haha.Very true..when I first started learning the language. I found it quiet hard to wrap my head around automatic type coercion etc. But now that's really not a big off for me. I'm more concerned about this now 😂