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by PommeDeTerre 4890 days ago
The "best" JavaScript-related book, as chosen by the community at large, is generally considered to be "JavaScript: The Good Parts", by Crockford.

While the most widely respected books for other programming languages teach one how to use such languages' features effectively, "JavaScript: The Good Parts" basically says not to use large parts of JavaScript.

That alone should show just how poor of a language it is. You don't have to ignore, or actively not use, so much core functionality when using a good programming language.

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Also there is this resource, and the first sentence says it all: http://bonsaiden.github.com/JavaScript-Garden/