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JavaScript: The Good Parts

by Douglas Crockford



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Publisher: O'Reilly

Pub Date: May 2, 2008

Print ISBN-13: 978-0-596-51774-8



Pages: 170





Table of Contents| Index



Overview



Most programming languages contain good and bad parts, but JavaScript has more than its share of the bad,



having been developed and released in a hurry before it could be refined. This authoritative book scrapes



away these bad features to reveal a subset of JavaScript that's more reliable, readable, and maintainable



than the language as a whole-a subset you can use to create truly extensible and efficient code.



Considered the JavaScript expert by many people in the development community, author Douglas Crockford



identifies the abundance of good ideas that make JavaScript an outstanding object-oriented programming



language-ideas such as functions, loose typing, dynamic objects, and an expressive object literal



notation. Unfortunately, these good ideas are mixed in with bad and downright awful ideas, like a



programming model based on global variables. When Java applets failed, JavaScript became the language of



the Web by default, making its popularity almost completely independent of its qualities as a programming



language. In JavaScript: The Good Parts, Crockford finally digs through the steaming pile of good



intentions and blunders to give you a detailed look at all the genuinely elegant parts of JavaScript,



including: