Doug Crockford Talk on JavaScript

http://www.felixcrux.com/posts/douglas-crockford-talk-waterloo/

by alec • 17 years ago

23 9 17 years ago

mrduncan• 17 years ago

I didn't see any links to videos - here is one from his Google tech talk in February: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQVTIJBZook. He also has a number of videos on YUI Theater (http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/).

I also recommend checking out the javascript page on his website, plenty of javascript related material to keep you busy for hours: http://www.crockford.com/javascript/

spiralhead4• 17 years ago

I would love to hear an argument FOR "semicolon insertion" for a change. I only ever hear arguments against it. Personally I would prefer to avoid unnecessary line noise if the interpreter can figure it out for me given the context.

wvenable4• 17 years ago

There is no good argument for semicolon insertion except to be newbie friendly. And, as pointed out in the article, semicolons can be inserted in unexpected places causing hard to find bugs. In the end, that isn't friendly to anyone including newbies.

spiralhead4• 17 years ago

I disagree. I consider an interpreter that can figure things out on your behalf to be a more intelligent interpreter. It requires me to type less. The "hard to find bugs" pointed out in the article are a (acceptable imo) trade-off for a terser syntax.

Doug Crockford Talk on JavaScript

Related Stories