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Yeah, it was mostly meant as a joke since English doesn't really have a creator (or at least not one alive today), but it evolved over a very long period. In terms of spelling there's been some notable contributors, but in general it's sort of a group effort. Then there's JavaScript, which isn't actually that bad with the exception of its very confusing scoping and type coercion rules. The scoping thing is really just a side effect of mixing OO and Functional paradigms together, and the type coercion while well-intentioned, is terribly implemented. If you removed type coercion from JS, and the this keyword, you'd pretty much eliminate every single one of those "omg, wtf JavaScript?!" posts that make the rounds. Well... you'd still probably have the callback hell posts of like 100 nested callbacks, but you can do that in any language, that's not really a JS problem, so much as a callback based API problem.