Is Javascript bad? Is W3 validation important, or just cross-browser compatibility is? (was: Supermarket repackaging trick again)

[Christopher Browne]

On 7/18/06, Byron Sonne <blsonne-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Anything with the word 'java' in it is bad ;)

There are some folks on a certain island that would find that offensive :-).

The funny part is that JavaScript bears no material relationship to
Java; they are totally different sorts of languages, beyond the vague
similarity that code in both languages has some aspects of syntax that
might remind one of C...
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Oddly enough, this is completely standard behaviour for shells. This
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`||'s unless you think Gödel's theorem is for sissies'.
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