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I've been dutifully bringing interesting quotes from all over the internet to my readers in the past three years. Toady, I'm going to turn a quote into a quiz: who said this? (I'll post the link tomorrow.)

[JavaScript], unlike Python, was a rushed little hack for Netscape 2 that was then frozen prematurely during the browser wars, and evolved significantly only once by ECMA. So its early flaws were never fixed, and worse, no virtuous cycle of fine-grained community feedback in the form of standard library code construction, and revision of the foundational parts of the language to better support the standard library and its common use-cases, ever occurred.