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The Importance of JavaScript

In JavaScript, everything's an object to a fault. A very dynamic object probably should have had some things be less object-y. But since such a rush that I not only made first-class functions, I made functions and arrays and almost everything be an object. From Java, I made numbers, strings, and booleans be something less than an object but they can be wrapped in object clothing when they need to be. And people nowadays look at that and say, that's a word. Why do you have those little sort of less than object primitive types in the language? And I say it's because of Java.JavaScript is like a successful virus or amoeba

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