Thanks, this is an excellent explanation. Let me add something. You say you need OOP in JavaScript or else you cannot make jQuery. But what is jQuery needed for? Largely to fix what sucks with JavaScript. Why does JavaScript suck? Partially browser issues but largely because it is used far beyond its intended purposes. Software companies were ignoring all the time that HTML is for documents meant for reading, and based on the puny HTML forms that were originally just meant to do stuff like post a comment or register your address for purchasing from a webshop, built whole CRM and accounting and whatnot systems. They treated HTML and JavaScript as a General Client for doing any client-server app.There is even an online version of PhotoShop and similar crazy things. Meanwhile, everybody else who used the proper tools for the job and used desktop software for things where it makes sense and so on, so basically who did not try to force a tool into something it was not meant to did not have the whole problem to begin with. Of course in a sense it meant a competitive disadvantage but that does not always matter so much.

My point is simply that it is not really just stupidity. It is not needing to go out on the edge. It is about not needing to build a query language into one that was totally not meant to because not needing to massage an XHTML document into a GUI because they use documents for documents and GUIs for GUIs.

But you are right, programming science is great. Just... don't expect to use it if you work for people who don't need to do almost-impossible things :)