This is about three women and a javascript address book. The first woman is my mom. Though she does have a first name and a last name, I have been referring to her as mom for my whole life, so her entry in my address book should be labelled “Mom”.

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Escaping is the art of transforming a text into a transport format from which it can be extracted again without any modification.

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The German lottery currently holds a jackpot of about 30 million Euro. A friend of mine took the bait and participated yesterday. Since he is a software developer, he wrote a small program to get him six random numbers in the range of 1 and 49.

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Javascript is a weird language. Great but weird. Take functions for example. You cannot only pass any type of arguments, you can also pass any number of arguments. This may be quite disturbing, especially for Java developers. Recently I had a discussion with a Java developer who complained about missing code assistance in Javascript, by which he meant no hint about the type of an argument.

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