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> Crockford helped me see that there was more to JavaScript than it was being used for.

I read Crockford’s “JavaScript: The Good Parts” and had a similar experience, though it was more like an epiphany. I thought back to all the other disdainful language criticisms I’d embraced over the previous 30 years and realized I’d been a fool all along about a lot of things…

Later I met Crockford after a JSON talk and we had an excellent discussion. But - he autographed my friend’s book with a personalized admonition to do no evil..



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