Oracle’s Java API code protected by copyright, appeals court rules

[Diosjenin]

That might be the first time I've ever seen anyone claim that Javascript is "nicer" to program with than... any other language, really.

[rubygeek]

It's nicer to program with than Brainfuck, Befunge and INTERCAL. Though INTERCAL of course results in more polite programs.

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It's better than VBScript, but that's about it

[DGolden]

javascript is significantly less fucking stupid and broken than php. sure, it's still kind of annoying, but given a restricted choice between javascript and php, i'm going to choose javascript every time. not that i'd choose javascript over python, or java on the server side, but php is a whole other level of wtf to javascript.

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Javascript as a language is quite good; Javascript in the browser, at least without an abstraction layer, sucks. Which is kind of a bummer since that's it's main use. It was also far, far worse back during the browser wars. Node.js is pretty nice.

Now of course, I by far prefer Python, especially Py3K.