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Re: Will ECMAScript 6 obsolete all my knowledge?

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bit-naughty@hotmail.com wrote:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Please fix this.

> I just read on the web that ECMAScript 6 will have classes.

Where?

> Does this mean a fundamentally different way of programming?

Depends.

> Will I have to buy new books for this,

No.  You do not even have to buy the old books; and you should not, because 
most of them are bad.

> and throw away all of my old knowledge?

No.

> I'm NOT comfortable right now with OOP at all, I don't fundamentally
> *like* it, so should I just wait educating myself till all this class
> stuff comes out?

No.  Implementations of ECMAScript Editions 1 through 3, and 5.x, *are* 
object-oriented programming languages.  They just use prototype-based 
instead of class-based inheritance.  (Microsoft JScript .NET and 
Macromedia/Adobe ActionScript 2.0+ are implementations of Netscape’s 
proposal for ECMAScript Edition 4, therefore support class-based inheritance 
as well.)

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Will ECMAScript 6 obsolete all my knowledge? bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2014-02-25 08:18 -0800
  Re: Will ECMAScript 6 obsolete all my knowledge? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-02-25 18:18 +0100
  Re: Will ECMAScript 6 obsolete all my knowledge? John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2014-02-26 16:14 +0000
  Re: Will ECMAScript 6 obsolete all my knowledge? Jim T. <x@y.z> - 2014-03-04 12:24 -0500

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