Quoting Robert Nystrom, Crafting Interpreters, Genever Benning, 2021

Because Eich slapped JS together with roughly the same raw materials and time as an episode of MacGyver, it has some weird semantic corners where the duct tape and paper clips show through.

— Robert Nystrom, Crafting Interpreters, Genever Benning, 2021 (via)

9:19am on July 13, 2025 from Georgia.


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