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>> "Crockford is, by nature, a simplifier and a tidier. He invented JSON, the data interchange format widely used in Ajax applications" Does anyone else find i
by axod 17y ago
>> "Crockford is, by nature, a simplifier and a tidier. He invented JSON, the data interchange format widely used in Ajax applications"
Does anyone else find it irritating to read "He invented JSON", which isn't true at all? He popularized and called out JSON which already existed.
- cturner 17y agoPerhaps 'discovered' or 'isolated' would be a better. It's the sort of thing that's unusual in computing but common in natural science. Something that's all around us, but we don't realise how to access it until someone comes along and componentises it for us. (The key quality of JSON for my perspective is that was a form that was immediately usable across several languages which already existed.)
- markkanof 17y agoCrockford actually makes the explicit distinction that he discovered JSON vs inventing it in a presentation he gave called "The JSON Saga". http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/video.php?v=crockford-json http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/video.php?v=crockford... It seems like other people often say that he invented it, even though he doesn't say that.