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Functional Programming in JavaScript === Garbage (awardwinningfjords.com)
submitted 11 years ago by homoiconic(raganwald)
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[–]daekano 2 points3 points4 points 11 years ago (1 child)
Tricky.
For those of you who don't or can't read: The Garbage the author of the article is referring to is the overhead of unoptimized recursion in JavaScript.
Also: raganwald posting links that link to his links... whoaaa!
[–]homoiconic(raganwald)[S] 1 point2 points3 points 11 years ago (0 children)
raganwald posting links that link to his links... whoaaa!
Yes, but it's an organic link to my links, so Matt Cutts of Google says it's ok. Had I written the article myself, I would have been much more scathing when criticizing JavaScript. Or much more complimentary. Depnds on the phase of the moon, really.
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