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		defunkt on Aug 19, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask YC: What's on your "Holy Shit" list? I can reiterate this. Specifically, "I've been using this language for 5 years and never realized it was a powerful language. Holy shit."

twism on Aug 19, 2008 [–]

Yes, and not DOM manipulation. Its the anonymous functions, closures, functional programming, scopes and contexts, etc... pair it with Rhino and the power of "dynamic scopes" and shared scopes and you have multi-threaded programming.

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