How JavaScript Works - Softcover

Crockford, Douglas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1949815005 ISBN 13: 9781949815009

Publisher: Virgule-Solidus, 2018

Synopsis

Douglas Crockford starts by looking at the fundamentals: names, numbers, booleans, characters, and bottom values. JavaScript’s number type is shown to be faulty and limiting, but then Crockford shows how to repair those problems. He then moves on to data structures and functions, exploring the underlying mechanisms and then uses higher order functions to achieve class-free object oriented programming. The book also looks at eventual programming, testing, and purity, all the while looking at the requirements of The Next Language. Most of our languages are deeply rooted in the paradigm that produced FORTRAN. Crockford attacks those roots, liberating us to consider the next paradigm.He also presents a strawman language and develops a complete transpiler to implement it. The book is deep, dense, full of code, and has moments when it is intentionally funny.

About this title

About the Author:

Douglas Crockford has been called a JavaScript Guru, but he is more of a Mahatma. He was born in Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, but left when he was only six months old because it was just too damn cold. He has worked in learning systems, small business systems, office automation, games, interactive music, multimedia, location-based entertainment, social systems, and programming languages. He is the inventor of Tilton, the ugliest programming language that was not specifically designed to be an ugly programming language. He is best known for having discovered that there are good parts in JavaScript. That was the first important discovery of the Twenty First Century. He also discovered the JSON Data Interchange Format, the world's most loved data format.

Review:

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    {"number": 0, "chapter": "Read Me First!"},
    {"number": 1, "chapter": "How Names Work"},
    {"number": 2, "chapter": "How Numbers Work"},
    {"number": 3, "chapter": "How Big Integers Work"},
    {"number": 4, "chapter": "How Big Floating Point Works"},
    {"number": 5, "chapter": "How Big Big Rationals Work"},
    {"number": 6, "chapter": "How Booleans Work"},
    {"number": 7, "chapter": "How Arrays Works"},
    {"number": 8, "chapter": "How Objects Work"},
    {"number": 9, "chapter": "How Strings Work"},
    {"number": 10, "chapter": "How The Bottom Values Work"},
    {"number": 11, "chapter": "How Statements Work"},
    {"number": 12, "chapter": "How Functions Work"},
    {"number": 13, "chapter": "How Generators Work"},
    {"number": 14, "chapter": "How Exceptions Work"},
    {"number": 15, "chapter": "How Programs Work"},
    {"number": 16, "chapter": "How this Works"},
    {"number": 17, "chapter": "How Classfree Works"},
    {"number": 18, "chapter": "How Tail Calls Work"},
    {"number": 19, "chapter": "How Purity Works"},
    {"number": 20, "chapter": "How Eventual Programming Works"},
    {"number": 21, "chapter": "How Date Works"},
    {"number": 22, "chapter": "How JSON Works"},
    {"number": 23, "chapter": "How Testing Works"},
    {"number": 24, "chapter": "How Optimization Works"},
    {"number": 25, "chapter": "How Transpiling Works"},
    {"number": 26, "chapter": "How Tokenizing Works"},
    {"number": 27, "chapter": "How Parsing Works"},
    {"number": 28, "chapter": "How Code Generation Works"},
    {"number": 29, "chapter": "How Runtimes Work"},
    {"number": 30, "chapter": "How Wat! Works"},
    {"number": 31, "chapter": "How This Book Works"}
]

About this edition

• Publisher: Virgule-Solidus
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1949815005
• ISBN 13: 9781949815009
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 279