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 offers a detailed
explanation of the features that make JavaScript an
outstanding object-oriented programming language, and
warns you about the bad parts. In the process,
JavaScript: The Good Parts defines a subset of JavaScript
that's more reliable, readable, and maintainable than the
language as a whole. Author Douglas Crockford, a member
of JavaScript 2.0 committee at ECMA, is considered by
many people in the development community to be the
JavaScript expert. A beautiful, elegant, lightweight and
highly expressive language lies buried under a steaming
pile of good intentions and blunders, he explains. The
very good ideas include functions, loose typing, dynamic
objects, and an expressive object literal notation. Awful
ideas include a programming model based on global
variables. With JavaScript: The Good Parts, you can
release this elegant programming language from its old
shell, and create more maintainable, extensible, and
efficient code.
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 offers a detailed
explanation of the features that make JavaScript an
outstanding object-oriented programming language, and
warns you about the bad parts. In the process,
JavaScript: The Good Parts defines a subset of JavaScript
that's more reliable, readable, and maintainable than the
language as a whole. Author Douglas Crockford, a member
of JavaScript 2.0 committee at ECMA, is considered by
many people in the development community to be the
JavaScript expert. A beautiful, elegant, lightweight and
highly expressive language lies buried under a steaming
pile of good intentions and blunders, he explains. The
very good ideas include functions, loose typing, dynamic
objects, and an expressive object literal notation. Awful
ideas include a programming model based on global
variables. With JavaScript: The Good Parts, you can
release this elegant programming language from its old
shell, and create more maintainable, extensible, and
efficient code.
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