Re: Closures Explained

dhtml wrote:
Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
dhtml wrote:
David Mark wrote:
On Oct 10, 1:06 pm, MartinRineh...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Flanagan is listed in the FAQ as the best JavaScript book.
I thought it was listed as the lesser evil. It is not an endorsement.
http://jibbering.com/faq/#onlineResources
You meant <http://jibbering.com/faq/#books>.

| Although many books have been reviewed, most are quite bad and cannot
| be recommended.
|
| The following list of books [has] been approved
[...]
by CLJ regulars after critical review.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Double nonsense.

Reviews:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.javascript/browse_frm/thread/b3c0f62bff45ea81/3eb57304bd05e85f
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.javascript/msg/e533138dd37f45bf?dmode=source
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.javascript/browse_frm/thread/7283898f77fd2a66/c5f145ae807c918e

As Lasse already said, those postings (especially comments on a few pages
and using that to make assumptions about the rest) do _not_ imply "critical
review".

Douglas Crockford has provided approval on this list as well. (Though
the information is somewhat dated and of an older edition.)
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.javascript/browse_frm/thread/46a45facabbd1898/566d10b261b1a9c8

Douglas Crockford may be knowledgable, but he is _not_ "regulars of CLJ",
and his posting certainly does _not_ imply "*critical* review". He does not
even state the reasons for his recommendation there. Nor does Jim Ley, and
given what Flanagan has posted in c.l.js, their judgement becomes rather
questionable. Ley's is apparently based on nothing but an "ipse dixit"
fallacy. And "not too bad" is certainly no endorsement.

D. Flanagan himself has said that the Pocket Reference was "probably out
of date."
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.javascript/msg/0866b23771e3a75e?dmode=source

Irrelevant.


PointedEars
--
Prototype.js was written by people who don't know javascript for people
who don't know javascript. People who don't know javascript are not
the best source of advice on designing systems that use javascript.
-- Richard Cornford, cljs, <f806at$ail$1$8300dec7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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