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November 12, 2002

More language fun

Ho ho. Stumbled across this from Jim Bowery:

This brings us to the present -- a world in which Javascript-based technologies like Tibet promise to not only salvage the object oriented aspect of the Internet from the birth defects of Jobs's spawn, but actually provide an advance over Smalltalk in the same lineage as CLOS and Self.
JavaScript is an "ugly duckling" of a language, but here's the clearest exposition I've seen of why it's so powerful.