Douglas Crockford
American programmer and writer; specified JSON, wrote JavaScript: The Good Parts, JSLint and How JavaScript Works.
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Their wordsI believe that actors are the next paradigm of programming.
- 18 months earlier
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Their wordsUnfortunately, this form of penance does not work. The only way to avoid the harm from unhealthy food is to not eat the unhealthy food.
- 8 months earlier
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Their wordsThis was an invention of Microsoft. While slightly less reckless that document.write, it is also unsafe and should no longer be used.
↗Plain Old JavaScript and the DOMcrockford.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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JavaScriptsoftware performance
Their wordsSince then, the web standards community has, for the most part, corrected many of WC3's failures. The DOM is much less deficient and much more portable and reliable. That is why I now recommend abandoning the libraries, which have grown into bloated platforms, and instead using the DOM and plain old JavaScript together.
↗Plain Old JavaScript and the DOMcrockford.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 6 months earlier
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Their wordsEnglish is my mother tongue, and there are things about English that I really like, but it also contains weirdnesses and special cases that serve no purpose except to make the language harder to learn and harder to use correctly. These are not the worst things the English have ever done (I'm looking at you, royals) but they are problems, and I think that they should be repaired.
- 3 years earlier
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Their wordsThere is a long standing tradition for each generation to criticize the destruction of standards of language usage by the succeeding generations. IMHO, such whining is pointless. Language is constantly being refactored to increase efficiency as we discuss new things, and to decrease efficiency to compromise outsiders.
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Their wordsIt was predicted that the internet would bring about collective consciousness, that the hive it enabled would collect and amplify all of humanity's intelligence, quickly converging on a consensus of great truth. Instead, the global village has splintered into a vast array of little angry echo chambers.