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ok. ok. i misunderstood. interesting. so why wouldn't i just write javascript? what is the value added? aside from the fact that i'm not coding in javascript (which i don't consider a negative)

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JavaScript lacks several features useful in programming complex applications, namely classical inheritance, code importing, dynamic message dispatching. Objective-J adds these to JavaScript, but of course you still get all the features of JavaScript, since it's a superset of the language.

surely all these things and more can be accomplished with straight javascript. look at jquery! and extjs, prototype, ...

jquery has gone so far that it is starting to smell like a DSL. all in js.

thanks for the feedback.

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