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When I discovered Crockford, JavaScript was a joke language. You'd have been laughed out of the room if you suggested doing any kind of major project with it. I
by throwawayboise 5y ago
When I discovered Crockford, JavaScript was a joke language. You'd have been laughed out of the room if you suggested doing any kind of major project with it. It was something you used to validate a field, triggered on the "blur" event or something like that.
Crockford helped me see that there was more to JavaScript than it was being used for.
- no-s 5y ago> Crockford helped me see that there was more to JavaScript than it was being used for. I read Crockford’s “JavaScript: The Good Parts” and had a similar experience, though it was more like an epiphany. I thought back to all the other disdainful language criticisms I’d embraced over the previous 30 years and realized I’d been a fool all along about a lot of things… Later I met Crockford after a JSON talk and we had an excellent discussion. But - he autographed my friend’s book with a personalized admonition to do no evil..