We're going in circles because I'm talking about design patterns and you're talking about the ability to add features into JS that weren't in mind when it was designed; it can be a lisp if that's what you want. I'll gladly defer to you on what JS is ultimately capable of, it was never the point of my post. Rather my point is that the different syntax is leading to a divergence libraries and frameworks; Batman.js is a great example of a framework that, while you can consume it from JS, you probably wouldn't want to.

Thanks for the fun back and forth.

Dude, just admit you’re wrong about what kinds of patterns are natural or common in JS and about what was “in mind” when it was created.

Here are some popular big JavaScript toolkits/frameworks: Closure Library, YUI, Dojo, Prototype, MooTools, ExtJS, Base2, JavaScriptMVC, Backbone.

http://closure-library.googlecode.com/svn/docs/closure_goog_...

http://yuilibrary.com/yui/docs/api/classes/Base.html

http://livedocs.dojotoolkit.org/dojo/declare

http://api.prototypejs.org/language/Class/

http://mootools.net/docs/core/Class/Class

http://docs.sencha.com/ext-js/4-0/#!/api/Ext.Base

http://base2.googlecode.com/svn/version/1.0.2/doc/base2.html...

http://javascriptmvc.com/docs.html#!jQuery.Class

http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/docs/backbone.html#...

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And here are some other helpful resources:

http://www.aminutewithbrendan.com/pages/20110216

http://www.quora.com/How-was-classical-inheritance-*supposed...

http://www.2ality.com/2011/06/prototypes-as-classes.html

http://ejohn.org/blog/simple-javascript-inheritance/

http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/programming/javascript/...

http://javascript.crockford.com/prototypal.html

http://bolinfest.com/javascript/inheritance.php

http://dmitrysoshnikov.com/ecmascript/chapter-7-2-oop-ecmasc...