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Richard Cornford
VK wrote:
You have made it clear that you 'program' on the basis of mystical
incantation and voodoo; fabricating you own complex web of
'explanations' for the phenomenon you mis-observe and chanting bizarre
sequences of operators, function calls and statements to you computer in
the hope that it will do something resembling what you want, but without
any ability to explain why you are using them.
This subject is not magic, there are no secrets (dark or otherwise),
just mechanism; pure deterministic mechanical logic. Seeing yourself as
the priest of some esoteric lore and sole knower or the ultimate truth
will only get in the way of your understanding of javascript. After all,
you claim to have been using javascript since the late 1990s, probably
longer than the majority of the regular contributors to this group, and
yet you understand less than people who have only been doing this for
just a couple of years. And you constantly see (but cannot express)
arcane significance in features that are no more than the direct
consequence of the specified mechanism.
Richard.
<snip>The dark secret of JavaScript (which you should keep in
secret ...
You have made it clear that you 'program' on the basis of mystical
incantation and voodoo; fabricating you own complex web of
'explanations' for the phenomenon you mis-observe and chanting bizarre
sequences of operators, function calls and statements to you computer in
the hope that it will do something resembling what you want, but without
any ability to explain why you are using them.
This subject is not magic, there are no secrets (dark or otherwise),
just mechanism; pure deterministic mechanical logic. Seeing yourself as
the priest of some esoteric lore and sole knower or the ultimate truth
will only get in the way of your understanding of javascript. After all,
you claim to have been using javascript since the late 1990s, probably
longer than the majority of the regular contributors to this group, and
yet you understand less than people who have only been doing this for
just a couple of years. And you constantly see (but cannot express)
arcane significance in features that are no more than the direct
consequence of the specified mechanism.
Richard.