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when I sarcastically say "thanks Brendan" about Javscript design flaws, I'm not really blaming Brendan; none of us would have designed a good language in the two weeks Netscape gave him. I'm really saying "Thanks, inscrutable market forces that led to Brendan's 2-week side-project becoming an industry standard that nobody in the last 20 years could change without breaking the web"

Computers are nothing but giant piles of historical mistakes kept for backwards compatibility, from QWERTY on up