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		g8oz on April 23, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You have ruined JavaScript I think his point is that such patterns in JS are unnecessary and bureaucratic.

JoeAltmaier on April 23, 2014 [–]

Sure; so are declarations, or manifests. You just shrug, type them in and continue. They certainly don't affect the programming process much.

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