They tend to start by saying everything is an object. Duh, yeah. Usually they say, as examples, that a tree or a dog is an object. Friggen geniuses or what?
Question is, what does the fact that a tree or dog is an object have to do with computer programming? They don’t say, but it is nothing. That is correct. Objects in programming have nothing to do with trees or dogs, even after you learn them as examples. You cannot fix a stupid idea once it gets into computer text books.
The word on the street is to end all JS statements with a semicolon. Except sometimes.
The remainder of this entry is too muddled to post.
Life [magazine] cover, Aug. 2005
[Author's note 2025: This post was likely extracted from a desk calendar. Other than reading, most other activities were at low ebb as it took fifteen months to recover from February 2005. After that date, I continued getting worse for six months. Then, I decided to buy a bicycle. It was this second heart attack, not the first, that really hit me. It's arbitrary, but this day in August 2005 could likely be the weakest of my life.]
