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		jameshart 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New Date("wtf") – How well do you know JavaScript'... Appealing to C - the land of undefined behavior - as a paragon of logic seems like a strange authority to reach for.

wiseowise 10 months ago [–]

The point is that this is a well-defined (not pun intended) behavior that exists within C, C++, Python, Ruby and probably a handful more popular languages. This set pretty much constitutes like 70%(?) of mainstream languages. Yet only JS gets shit thrown its way in this thread.

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