From kde-core-devel  Wed Oct 04 11:42:59 2006
From: "Maksim Orlovich" <mo85 () cornell ! edu>
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:42:59 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Using scripting languages for KDE4 main modules
Message-Id: <10572.24.59.194.181.1159962179.squirrel () webmail ! cornell ! edu>
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>> The reason for javascript's bad reputation is probably more to do with
>> incredible weak typing, but you could have the same problem with perl.
>>
> Certainly. And lacking the concept of classes and having to manually
> stuff methods into properties when building an object has nothing to do
> with it.

Actually, it doesn't. There is no real difference for practical purpose
between:

class Foo {
   Foo() { ... }
   void method1();
   void method2();
};

and:
function Foo() { ... }
Foo.prototype = {
    method1: function() { ... }
    method2: function() { ... }
}

... when you compare it with other languages that lack static
typechecking, that is.