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by docgnome 5937 days ago
He also wrote what is, imho, one of the best programming language books, JavaScript: The Good Parts. (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596517748) I found it super handy mostly because he made no claims that JS is the best thing ever. A lot of it sucks and he admits that. Which I found super refreshing from the standard "ZOMG X IS TEH BEST EVAR! USE X AND GOLD COINS WILL FALL FROM THE SKY!" of most programming language books.