How JavaScript Works

How JavaScript Works
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Publisher : Virgule-Solidus
Total Pages : 279
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ISBN-10 : 9781949815023
ISBN-13 : 1949815021
Rating : 4/5 (021 Downloads)

Book Synopsis How JavaScript Works by : Douglas Crockford

Download or read book How JavaScript Works written by Douglas Crockford and published by Virgule-Solidus. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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