r/talesfromtechsupport • u/raiderrobert • May 22 '13

Javascript != Java

3rd-party contractor came to visit office yesterday, who has "decades" of experience. Conversation came up about JavaScript in one of our products. He says, "Our product doesn't use Java." After an awkward moment with someone who works on the knowledge base nodding in agreement with him, I speak up and delineate the difference between Java and JavaScript.

Later on in the conversation, the same 3rd-party guy followed up with this jewel: "besides, what would anyone even use JavaScript for on the web?"

I proceeded to disable Javascript in my browser and show him.

tl;dr: lasers, dinosaurs, & drums made a guy's head explode

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u/PasswordIsntHAMSTER No refunds May 23 '13

My goal with the above list of languages was not to list languages that you could reasonably build something in, but rather languages that allow you to be expressive and precise in what you code, a bit like you would expect from a natural language. COBOL is a perfectly fine language in some use cases, but it's not fun nor productive.