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<node id="676204" title="Re^3: What can bring the excitement back to Perl?" created="2008-03-25 15:00:36" updated="2008-03-25 11:00:36">
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Javascript was my first language actually (I am not counting BASIC on the Apple ][e back in '85) so I completely agree with you.
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My comment about Javascript was not actually meant to be a slight against it. Only a clarification that most people who had only been exposed to PHP, were also likely to be exposed to Javascript too. But as you said, JS has some ugly dark corners to it which gives it an undeservedly bad rep. 
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-stvn
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