Douglas Crockford Quotes

• Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures.

  Douglas Crockford

  Data, Crafts, Requirements

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• Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make.

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  Computer, Program, Humans

  Douglas Crockford (2008). “JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts”, p.94, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• JavaScript is the only language that I'm aware of that people feel they don't need to learn before they start using it.

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  People, Needs, Javascript

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• In JavaScript, there is a beautiful, elegant, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders.

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  Beautiful, Javascript, Good Intentions

  Douglas Crockford (2008). “JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts”, p.2, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• People who use Class will never understand all the crap they are doing.

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  Class, People, Use

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• Most programming languages contain good parts and bad parts. I discovered that I could be better programmer by using only the good parts and avoiding the bad parts.

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  Language, Programming, Avoiding

  Douglas Crockford (2008). “JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts”, p.1, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• 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.

  Douglas Crockford

  Ideas, Innovation, Progress

  Response Post to David Winer's "Scripting News for 12/21/2006", scripting.wordpress.com. December 21, 2006.

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• JavaScript is the world's most misunderstood programming language.

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  Misunderstood, World, Javascript

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• Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.

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  Engineering, Holy Grail, Reuse

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• Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.

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  Confusion, Giving, Able

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• Things don't change because people change their minds. They change because they retire or die.

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  People, Mind, Don't Change

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• It turns out that style matters in programming for the same reason that it matters in writing. It makes for better reading.

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  Reading, Writing, Style

  Douglas Crockford (2008). “JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts”, p.95, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• Software is usually expected to be modified over the course of its productive life. The process of converting one correct program into a different correct program is extremely challenging.

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  Productive Life, Challenges, Different

  Douglas Crockford (2008). “JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts”, p.94, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• Just because something is a standard doesn’t mean it is the right choice for every application. Like XML, for example.

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  Mean, Choices, Example

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• People who should be the first to recognize the value of an innovation are often the last.

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  People, Innovation, Lasts

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• I have been writing JavaScript for 8 years now, and I have never once found need to use an uber function. The super idea is fairly important in the classical pattern, but it appears to be unnecessary in the prototypal and functional patterns. I now see my early attempts to support the classical model in JavaScript as a mistake.

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  Mistake, Writing, Ideas

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• The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round one.

  Douglas Crockford

  Wheels, Good Things, Rounds

  Response to the feed "Scripting News for 12/20/2006", scripting.wordpress.com. December 20, 2006.

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• The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.

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  Organization, Structure, Produce

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• A JSON decoder MAY accept and ignore comments.

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  May, Accepting, Comment

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• It turns out that strong typing does not eliminate the need for careful testing. And I have found in my work that the sorts of errors that strong type checking finds are no the errors I worry about.

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  Strong, Errors, Worry

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• Using int made sense in the 50s. Not any more

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  Made

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• Features have a specification cost, a design cost, and a development cost. There is a testing cost and a reliability cost. ... Features have a documentation cost. Every feature adds pages to the manual increasing training costs.

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  Design, Training, Add

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• Obsolete comments are worse than no comments.

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  Obsolete, Comment

  Douglas Crockford (2008). “JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts”, p.6, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• JS will be a real functional language.

  Douglas Crockford

  Real, Language

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• Features that offer value to a minority of users impose a cost on all users.

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  Minorities, Cost, Offers

  Douglas Crockford (2008). “JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts”, p.100, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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