Douglas Crockford
American computer programmer · United States · On the map · Developers · Born 1955 · age 71
Douglas Crockford is an American computer programmer who is involved in the development of the JavaScript language. Crockford specified the data format JSON, and has developed various JavaScript related tools such as the static code analyzer JSLint and minifier JSMin.
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, The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round one.
Progress comes from finding better ways to do things. Don’t be afraid of innovation. Don’t be afraid of ideas that are not your own.
JavaScript is built on some very good ideas and a few very bad ones.
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Crockford wrote the book JavaScript: The Good Parts, published in 2008, followed by How JavaScript Works in 2018. Crockford was a senior JavaScript architect at PayPal until 2019, and is also a writer and speaker on JavaScript, JSON, and related web technologies.
