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4th May 2010

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The World's Most Misunderstood Programming Language

This essay by Douglas Crockford may be a little bit older and most people who (really) know JavaScript also know this already. Everybody else should read it, like … NOW!

Especially the part about the books is, well, sad but true. You mostly just can’t find JavaScript books that don’t teach you incredible crap!

The essay is also available in many other languages (German, French and more) over here. There’s no excuse not to read it!

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