ef="http://helephant.com/2008/08/19/functions-are-first-class-objects-in-javascript/">Functions are first class objects in JavaScript</a>
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<h3>Loose Typing</h3>

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    For many front-end developers, JavaScript was their first taste of a scripting and/or interpretive language. To these developers, the concept and implications of loosely typed variables may be second nature. However, the explosive growth in demand for modern web applications has resulted in a growing number of back-end developers that 