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by crisnoble 4671 days ago
They are not really comparable, Crockford's book is for programmers who want to use JavaScript and do it 'The Right Way' TM. Eloquent JavaScript reads much more like a story that happens to teach basic programming concepts, which happen to use JavaScript. It could be read both by an experienced developer and a someone who wants to dive in with no programming experience. The Good Parts would be useless to a beginner.