tag:xyzzyb.com,2008:/2008/5/26/notes-on-crockfords-javascript-video-lecture-1/comments Mephisto Noh-Varr 2008-05-27T20:12:15Z Stephen tag:xyzzyb.com,2008-05-26:377:379 2008-05-27T20:12:15Z 2008-05-27T20:12:15Z <p>Hey, I’m just writing what Crockford was saying. I think that having separate objects for like functions is great. I really dig Python’s take on this, i.e. being able to pull in specific subsets of libraries with “from foo import bar”. I don’t really see anything in the Math object that you’d need every time either. If a short script doesn’t need it, then it doesn’t need it!</p> <p>Thanks for the JavaScript props. I’m tired of treating JavaScript like a black box where I just follow existing examples without really fully understanding them. Programming by coincidence is never a good idea.</p> donald tag:xyzzyb.com,2008-05-26:377:378 2008-05-27T04:22:17Z 2008-05-27T04:22:17Z <p>Math object was a bad idea? Nonsense. Segmenting the global functionspace into discrete domains is a great idea. Would’ve been nice if there were some mechanism to import a domain’s namespace explicitly, if you were trying to do a whole buncha math operations at once, but, you know, whatever. Save me from the polluted <span class="caps">PHP</span> functionspace, please.</p> <p>Wise of you to focus on Javascript intensively. Too many web developers don’t understand it and slag off on it without thinking.</p>