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<p>The world of technology has little by little been taken over by the web,
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which (in my opinion) isn't necessarily a bad thing. What I don't like is
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that the main languages in the web are scripting languages that allow bad
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practices and, to some extent, encourage them. It wouldn't be so bad (at
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least for me) if this were limited to JavaScript on the client-side. My
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issue is that scripting has advanced even to the servers. Sure, you can
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use JSP, which is nice because it's a compiled language and it's more or
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less strict as to its mentality and paradigm, but Java isn't that popular
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in the web, what's popular are languages such as Python, Ruby, and
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JavaScript (because someone thought it was a good idea to put JS on the
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server).</p>
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<p>You see, at least at first when mobile phones started to become popular,
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they all use Java or some other stricter language, heck, you can program
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Android apps in C++ if you wanted to (although I wouldn't recommend it).
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Now companies figure that they can just make a web app and it will be just
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the same as having a mobile app, they'll just have to go to the website to
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see it. This, although true, limits the possible jobs of <b>all</b> developers
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to mostly web monkey work, where you pay less attention on functionality
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and more attention on aesthetics, which some people may enjoy, but <b>I</b>
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sure don't.</p>
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<p>Essentially, scripting (and by scripting I mostly mean JavaScript, you
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Python and Ruby devs can calm down a bit) is allowing normies to begin
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entering our field without learning any good practices, or even the
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foundations of programming. Stop making it easier for people who don't care
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about the beauty of programming to get into programming, they don't deserve
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it. Why should someone who has no wish to learn of the beauty of painting
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enter a business where they will be painting?</p>
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<p>Of course, I have no problem with them entering our industry, so long as
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they actually make an effort to learn good practices and choose a
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<b>standard</b> for their language. Otherwise you might be reading two
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JS projects from two different people, and the paradigms are so different
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you might think that's a whole different language! When I learn C++ I know
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that every C++ program will have essentially the same mentality to it.</p>
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<p>I often get the impression that people who learn scripting languages are
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the same people who started off with game-makers because they didn't want
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to have to program the whole thing.</p>
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<p>Of course, this is all a matter of opinion, I personally don't mind the
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essence of what scripting is, I just don't like the fact that it has
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basically no standards, and if it does, the language's interpreter doesn't
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enforce them (I believe the HTML & CSS are partly to blame for this, seeing
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that the browser often takes care of most errors your so lazy ass doesn't
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have to fix them). It's not the computer's (or in this case, the web
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browser's) to interpret what I mean (even though it is called an
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interpreter), its job is to read my code and if something is not standard
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or doesn't make sense, it doesn't fix it for me, it gives me a <b>big fat
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error in bold red text</b> that tells me "Hey, this code is shitty, you
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should change that!".</p>
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