JavaScript gives you too many ways to shoot yourself in the foot. Just what you’d expect from a programming language that was created in a week. The JavaScript programming language has a lot of history, but it was created over about — yes — a week in 1995. It was first called LiveScript, but the name was changed to JavaScript to ride the bandwagon for Java, despite having nothing to do with Java. It soon became very popular, enabling the web application revolution and drawing support by practica...