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Why not take a functional approach with JS as opposed to OO?

I do agree with the article in the importance of learning javaScript though as I'm in the midst of a few thousand lines of js (using backbone.js) to bring real power to the browser side (with a Lisp backend).

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gibsonf1 I agree that a functional approach is equally powerful as an OO approach. I focused on an OO aproach as this is what I have the most experience with and this is what Dojo is geared towards.

The intent of the post is to entice server side programmers to learn JS and to take a rigoruous approach to writing JS code. Whether it is functional or OO is irrelevant as long as you write great code, so your point is certainly worth mentioning.

Thanks for the feedback

Sorry if this is off topic but how has been your experience with backbone.js. There is some information out there but no first hand account of building a large app with it.

Backbone is working really well so far, an impressive framework.

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