Re^5: Pass array, then clear

Take JavaScript as an example. It is perceived as modern and quality programming language

"modern" is contestable, given that there are people with university degrees today who are younger than JavaScript but it is all a matter of scale I suppose. "quality" on the other hand is just laughable. Picture the scene:

CIO: Project Omega is by far the most mission-critical system we will ever construct. Many lives would be lost if the program were to fail at any point. It must be the ultimate in robust coding.
Head of Software Eng: I guess we'd better use JavaScript then.

I don't think so.

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Re^6: Pass array, then clear by jahero (Pilgrim) on Jan 17, 2018 at 10:39 UTC
Well, I am probably the least qualified to comment on this, as my experience with JavaScript is virtually none. Reason why I mentioned JavaScript is as follows: One can not deny that JavaScript has considerable traction. This month it is rank 6 on TIOBE index. So "outsider" could easily conclude, that "JavaScript is a great language to learn". However, even language which is favoured by the crowd and which is used on servers (NodeJS) can contain horrible "kinks", like the one, which I mentioned. So it would seem we are in accord.	[reply]

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Re^6: Pass array, then clear
by jahero (Pilgrim) on Jan 17, 2018 at 10:39 UTC

Well, I am probably the least qualified to comment on this, as my experience with JavaScript is virtually none.

Reason why I mentioned JavaScript is as follows: One can not deny that JavaScript has considerable traction. This month it is rank 6 on TIOBE index. So "outsider" could easily conclude, that "JavaScript is a great language to learn".

However, even language which is favoured by the crowd and which is used on servers (NodeJS) can contain horrible "kinks", like the one, which I mentioned.

So it would seem we are in accord.

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