I've got the following message in one the online forums:"I think you need to get over your hatred of Javascript Yakov". This is my quick response:
Let me remind you an old joke:
-Joe, do you like tomatoes?
-I like to eat them, otherwise...not really
I do not love or hate programming languages - I use them. Having the need to execute ten pounds of code of any interpreted/platform dependent language in a non-standardized environment such as a Web browser is bad. In the case of Ajax, it's a lot of JavaScript per Web application, and I do not like THIS USE of JavaScript.
I do not have anything against JavaScript when it comes to beautifying the user's Web page, nice visual effects, some client-side validation, passing data between various applications that are part of a Web page. But I'd prefer running my programs in a VM, being that JVM, Flash Player, or anything else.
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