jazzc
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You can do everything and more with Python and other server-side scripting languages.
How on earth can you implement client-side functionality with a server side language? As a trivial example, can you think of any way to track mouse movement without javascript? Pop up a message after a textbox loses focus?
Truth is Javascript is beyond saving and is a pretty ugly language with a horrible OOP architecture.
First of all, it 's not wise to be a fan boy. OO is not the end-of-all paradigm in programming and not everything has to follow it. Javascript derives from the Lisp/Scheme tradition, i.e. functional programming paradigm.
Second, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. There are people who see Brainfuck as pure beauty...
For example, this prints "Hello World"
++++++++++[>+++++++>++++++++++>+++>+<<<<-]>++.>+.+++++++..+++.>++.<<+++++++++++++++.>.+++.------------.>+.>.
Lovely, no?