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Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.

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Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make.

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

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

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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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I give permission for IBM, its customers, partners, and minions, to use JSLint for evil.

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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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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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Quotes by Douglas Crockford

Douglas Crockford

A JSON decoder MAY accept and ignore comments.

Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.

Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make.

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.

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

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

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

I give permission for IBM, its customers, partners, and minions, to use JSLint for evil.

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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