Well, I've never managed to grok LISP, myself, actually. But i do love JS, and love it more the more i do with it. I do think reading Crockford is probably hugely helpful -- at least some of the stuff on his site, if you can't find/afford/deal with the book.
(And there are actually two equality operators in JS, btw: you can use '==', but it does type coercion, as someone else mentioned. The reason to use '===' is that it doesn't coerce types, so it's a lot safer.)
You're also not WRONG about it being a language designed by committee, mind. There's some really STUPID shit in JS, precisely because of that. But it is also true that on its own merits, it has a lot of really marvelous stuff. I am in particular deeply in love with prototypal inheritance, because it makes SENSE to me in a way that "classical" inheritance never really has.
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Date: 2012-03-04 12:49 am (UTC)(And there are actually two equality operators in JS, btw: you can use '==', but it does type coercion, as someone else mentioned. The reason to use '===' is that it doesn't coerce types, so it's a lot safer.)
You're also not WRONG about it being a language designed by committee, mind. There's some really STUPID shit in JS, precisely because of that. But it is also true that on its own merits, it has a lot of really marvelous stuff. I am in particular deeply in love with prototypal inheritance, because it makes SENSE to me in a way that "classical" inheritance never really has.