<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style="font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div>Why not? Because it helps a distinctly inferior language design to perpetuate.<br></div><div><br></div><div>It used to be said that any programmer that first learned to program using BASIC was ruined for life. I would say the same thing about Javascript. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Doug C.</div><div><br></div><div class="zmail_extra_hr" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; line-height: 0px;"><br></div><div class="zmail_extra" data-zbluepencil-ignore="true"><div><br></div><div id="Zm-_Id_-Sgn1">---- On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:46:49 -0500 <b> <tsiegel@softcon.com></b> wrote ---<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin: 0px;" id="blockquote_zmail"><div><p>Again, not my choice, but folks do tend to like it for some
reason, so why not?<br></p></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div></div><br></body></html>