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JavaScript was never a messy language, it was the different browsers that created a horrible situation for using JavaScript in web pages.

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Actually it was very messy. People were encouraged to use it as a write-only imperative scripting language.

People thought VBScript was more powerful. JavaScript was like that attention-seeking red-headed stepchild that you see at family reunions.

There's a good reason Douglas Crockford re-introduced JavaScript as "the wwwrld's most misunderstood programming language." He saw beauty within that others didn't.

That's something I don't really understand. The language is a garbage-collected C-like. If you don't abuse objects/this/.call, plain Javascript is very readable. What made it a "write-only imperative scripting language"?

If you look at the "JavaScripts" that were floating around at the time (try looking up dynamicdrive.com from around the year 2003) I think you'll understand what I mean.

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