From Wikipedia "Lingua franca may also refer to the de facto language". As much as I wish the development community would accept Python it has instead decided Javascript will be the must know language. I suppose it is really HTML that has been accepted and it just happens that Javascript comes with ~99.999% of browsers. In the early days of web development javascript was good if you wanted to popup a window. I really didn't want to write software to popup windows and what little I did write would blow up in IE. Browser compatablity is still the largest and biggest problem I have with Javascript even if it has improved with latest greatest IE.
Why should every CompSci know Javasript before graduation? Well they should know web, thus should know Javascript. The web is not just green screen it is evolving into a fat client. With JQuery, Dojo, Ext2 and other javscript libraries enable the web to be used for an entire new set of applications. I hope to blog about the event system that I have been working on and that will detail how to write TCP connections using Javascript.
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