JavaScript：世界上误解最深的语言

Amateurs业余者

Most of the people writing in JavaScript are not programmers. They lack the training and discipline to write good programs. JavaScript has so much expressive power that they are able to do useful things in it, anyway. This has given JavaScript a reputation of being strictly for the amateurs, that it is not suitable for professional programming. This is simply not the case.

使用JavaScript的人大多不是程序员，他们缺少写良好程序的培训和训练。JavaScript有非常强大的表现力，不管怎样他们也能使用它做有用的事情。这给了JavaScript一个”全然适合业余爱好者而不适合专业程序员“的名声。这很明显是一个错误。

Object-Oriented面向对象

Is JavaScript object-oriented? It has objects which can contain data and methods that act upon that data. Objects can contain other objects. It does not have classes, but it does have constructors which do what classes do, including acting as containers for class variables and methods. It does not have class-oriented inheritance, but it does have prototype-oriented inheritance.

JavaScript是面向对象的吗？它有对象，它的对象可以包含数据以及对数据进行操作的方法，对象也可以包含其他的对象。它没有类，但是它有构造函数来做类的事情，包括声明类的变量和方法。它没有面向类的继承，但是他有面向原型的继承。

The two main ways of building up object systems are by inheritance (is-a) and by aggregation (has-a). JavaScript does both, but its dynamic nature allows it to excel at aggregation.

构建对象系统的两大主要方法是继承（is-a）和聚合（has-a）。这两者JavaScript都有，但是它的动态天性允许有比聚合更好的实现方式。

Some argue that JavaScript is not truly object oriented because it does not provide information hiding. That is, objects cannot have private variables and private methods: All members are public.

一些关于JavaScript不是真的面向对象的争论其理由是它没有提供信息隐藏。也就是说JavaScript的对象没有私有变量和私有方法：它的所有成员都是公开的。

But it turns out that JavaScript objects canhave private variables and private methods. (Click here now to find out how.) Of course, few understand this because JavaScript is the world's most misunderstood programming language.

但是事实是JavaScript 的对象可以有私有变量和私有方法（点击这里来看如何实现）。当然，之所以很少有人知道这个是因为JavaScript是世界上误解最深的语言嘛。

Some argue that JavaScript is not truly object oriented because it does not provide inheritance. But it turns out that JavaScript supports not only classical inheritance, but other code reuse patterns as well.

另一些关于JavaScript不是真的面向对象的争论其理由是它没有提供继承。但是事实是JavaScript不但支持经典的继承，而且支持其他一些代码重用的模式。

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