{"id":100,"date":"2019-06-05T07:32:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T05:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codemotion.com\/magazine\/the-right-and-wrong-with-javascript-interview-with-douglas-crockford\/"},"modified":"2020-01-31T11:19:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T10:19:00","slug":"the-right-and-wrong-with-javascript-interview-with-douglas-crockford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codemotion.com\/magazine\/frontend\/web-developer\/the-right-and-wrong-with-javascript-interview-with-douglas-crockford\/","title":{"rendered":"The right and wrong with JavaScript: interview with Douglas Crockford"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paypal JavaScript architect Douglas Crockford<\/a> is the man<\/span> widely praised for discovering the much-loved JSON Data Interchange Format.<\/p>\n

But when the American computer programmer and entrepreneur suggested there were good parts to JavaScript<\/span>, the reaction was a tad more intense.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a lot that\u2019s wrong with JavaScript<\/span>. But the interesting thing, the unexpected thing, was that there was a lot right with JavaScript<\/span>.<\/q><\/p>\n

“When I first announced that there were good parts to JavaScript<\/span>, that news was met with scepticism and threats of violence \u2013 there\u2019s no way that could be true! But it is true \u2013 JavaScript<\/span> does have some brilliant ideas in it. Taking functions as first-class objects with lexical closure, which we got from scheme, combining that with simple objects is just absolutely brilliant.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the author of How JavaScript Works, also developing various JavaScript-related tools such as JSLint and JSMin, Douglas is an expert<\/span> in his field. But he is reluctant to accept all the credit for the success of JSON and JavaScript.<\/p>\n