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Atwood's Law: any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript. (via @codinghorror)

The title of this blog entry is a great quote from the coding horror blog by Jeff Atwood, the "Andy Rooney" of the tech community... Enjoy!

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Leading directly to an example of Greenspun's 10th rule of programming - "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."

This is true even if you start with JavaScript.

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