Early in my career, I worked alongside a seasoned C programmer who had finally embraced web development. The company had acquired a successful website built in Perl by someone who, while brilliant, wasn't entirely technical. The codebase was a fascinating mess. print commands interwoven with HTML, complex business logic, database calls, and conditional statements all tangled together in ways that would make you want to restart from scratch! Then came the JavaScript requirements. Whenever fron...
