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I'm impressed with javascript. I think it's a good bridge between the LISP/SCHEME crowd and the C/JAVA curly bracket crowd. I'm really rooting for it.

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Why do you put the names of languages that are clearly and obviously not acronyms in all-caps?

Why are you discussing capitalization preferences with complete strangers?

Me too. the new ECMAscript looks like it is prescribing some sort of class structure (of course you are free to do the prototype thing if you need to).

I guess its a balancing act, I like havign the power, and I am happy to discipline myself.

Sure, it may have trouble scaling for large teams and codebases, but I don't wnat to work with large teams or codebases.

Yeah, I think the new proposed spec is trying to addressing that, with namespaces and the like.

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