History
Anyway, I know only one programming language worse than C and that is Javascript. I was convinced that we needed to build-in a programming language, but the developers, Tim first, were very much opposed. It had to remain completely declarative. Maybe, but the net result is that the programming-vacuum filled itself with the most horrible kludge in the history of computing: Javascript.
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