A quote from the book: "It is rarely possible for standard committees to remove imperfections from a language because doing so would cause the breakage of all of the bad programs that depend on those bad parts. They are usually powerless to do anything except heap more features on top of existing pile of imperfections. And the new features do not always interact harmoniously, thus producing more bad parts."
http://books.google.is/books?id=PXa2bby0oQ0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=JavaScript:+The+Good+Parts&source=bl&ots=HHtko4s-lK&sig=gUSv3lZUqxSTKF9s4cxsg706z5M&hl=is&ei=LCB-TJaYJsOn4Ab8wvXbBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDAQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=false 2010/9/1 Steven Taylor <[email protected]> > Hey... I'm not sure how far into JavaScript you are, but I found this book > to be really useful in the past: > > JavaScript: The Good Parts > Unearthing the Excellence in JavaScript > By Douglas Crockford > > It's a reasonably concise, to the point book of 100 pages or so that covers > the main constructs. There are some subtlies about closures and protypal > inheritance that are worth getting your head around. I was surprised about > how much could be done with the language once you get around its > difficulties. Also surprising is that JavaScript draws inspiration from > Lisp > and Scheme. > > -Steven > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Björn Helgason, Verkfræðingur Fornustekkum II 781 Hornafirði, t-póst: [email protected] gsm: +3546985532 sími: +3544781286 http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming Tæknikunnátta höndlar hið flókna, sköpunargáfa er meistari einfaldleikans góður kennari getur stigið á tær án þess að glansinn fari af skónum /|_ .-----------------------------------. ,' .\ / | Með léttri lund verður | ,--' _,' | Dagurinn í dag | / / | Enn betri en gærdagurinn | ( -. | `-----------------------------------' | ) | (\_ _/) (`-. '--.) (='.'=) ♖♘♗♕♔♙ `. )----' (")_(") ☃☠ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
