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Gah. It’s such a weird naming choice. I still have peers confusing Java and Javascript...



It's sort of elegant, nicely rounds up the whole collection of weird choices in JavaScript's design.


They aren't "weird" design choices. Most of them are just plain bad design choices.


The more I use JavaScript (jquery), the more I fall in love with it!


I heard that if you try to run Java in a Javascript VM, it is silently coerced into almost the right JS code.


Most Java programs won't even parse.




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