Can you name two programming paradigms important for JavaScript app developers?
JavaScript is a multi-paradigm language, supporting imperative/procedural programming along with OOP (Object-Oriented Programming) and functional programming. JavaScript supports OOP with prototypal inheritance.
- Good to hear: Prototypal inheritance (also: prototypes, OLOO); Functional programming (also: closures, first class functions, lambdas).
- Red flags: No clue what a paradigm is, no mention of prototypal oo or functional programming.
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