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The Purpose of Functions

Thursday January 8, 2009
You can use functions in JavaScript

When you first start writing programs in any language there is a lot of terminology and functionality that may not be all that obvious to you. One such is "functions". Most programming languages include these and this short article will explain to you what they are and why someone writing in JavaScript would want to use them.

The Purpose of Functions
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