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		uname-s on May 10, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Introduction to Object-Oriented JavaScript The promise in 1985 was Smalltalk; the reality was Java. Your argument rests on an industry bait-and-switch.

Sanddancer on May 11, 2015 [–]

No, the reality is not just Java. It's Ruby, C#, Objective-C, Python, etc. Other languages have made object systems that aren't as ugly as Java's

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