The State of JavaScript
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Brendan Eich is CTO of Mozilla. In 1995, Eich invented JavaScript (ECMAScript), the Internet’s most widely used programming language. He also co-founded the mozilla.org project in 1998, serving as chief architect. Eich helped launch the award winning Firefox Web browser in November 2004 and Thunderbird e-mail client in December 2004.
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General: I am sure you have heard this before, these bits sound 'nice' but the overall language entity itself is starting to look haphazard.
Now for the Web: you mentioned Smalltalk (and also look to Ruby) you might take advantage that the web is a HTTP messaging environment and 'view' functions as "messages". Then truely REST-ful interfaces begin getting easy.
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