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2020-02-27 (Thursday)

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    Phil Gyford @philgyford • • In reply to… • #

    @krs3 Indeed. I think if it was a different language it would be fine, but it's confusing to us old folks when "JavaScript" looks so different and works so differently. I'm not sure other languages have transformed so much.

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    Phil Gyford @philgyford • • In reply to… • #

    I should juste learn the modern wey ynstead of moanyng, but I can doon everythyng I need so it seems so muche effort juste to read oother peple's code.

    (With apologies to Middle English scholars.)

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    Phil Gyford @philgyford • • #

    At a weird point where I can still write decent, fairly complicated JavaScript yet I often come across modern JavaScript that not only do I not understand, but I can't even work out how to download. I feel like I only speak Middle English and have landed among 2020's teenagers.