Hidden under a huge steaming pile of good intentions and blunders is an elegant, expressive programming language. JavaScript has good parts. – Douglas Crockford

In this talk, Douglas Crockford (personal site, Wikipedia) will discuss the evolution of JavaScript and of his relationship to the language. Through his description of his own journey with the language, Douglas evokes what he considers to be the "good stuff" therein.

Douglas is also author of the book JavaScript: The Good Parts.

About Douglas

Douglas Crockford was born in the wilds of Minnesota, but left when he was only six months old because it was just too damn cold. He turned his back on a promising career in television when he discovered computers. He has worked in learning systems, small business systems, office automation, games, interactive music, multimedia, location-based entertainment, social systems, and programming languages. He is the inventor of Tilton, the ugliest programming language that was not specifically designed to be an ugly programming language. He is best known for having discovered that there are good parts in JavaScript. This was an important and unexpected discovery. It has been called the first important discovery of the 21st century. He discovered the JSON Data Interchange Format. He is currently working on making the web a secure and reliable software delivery platform. He has his work cut out for him.

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