Some more vivid phrasing from the introduction to: "Javascript, the good parts" (Douglas Crockford, 2008, O'Reilly)
"In JavaScript, there is a beautiful, elegant, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders".
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