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Love, respect, fear...
McFly — (archived)

...are some of the most common attitudes toward JS that I've come across.

I've known 2 hardcore professional programmers who had to dive into JS and both came out with a very healthy respect for it. I've also observed that some coders who are steeped in VB have a difficult time with JS, often complaining that the syntax is just too alien. When I hear that, I give advice that I've never seen anyone follow: spend some time becoming acquainted with C, then come back to JS.

I'm certainly no JS expert by any stretch, although I dip my toes into it almost everyday. But then dipping a toe is vastly different from diving in and touching bottom. I'd love to plunge in and spend a few months writing nothing but dhtml--really learn the DOMs inside out--but the siren song of the server keeps drawing me away. And my boss would get really pissed, too.

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