[TweedHeads]

Crockford should stop claiming he invented JSON.

Brendan Eich did, JSON is Javascript, part of it, its own data structure, it is javascript object notation.

What Crockford did was to spread its adoption among other languages, building libraries and encouraging people to use them.

To Caesar what is Caesar’s...

[wvenable]

If you watch his talk he doesn't claim he invented JSON; he goes out of his way to say he discovered it -- because it was already there. And he even says that he wasn't the first to discover it either -- as many other people figured it out around the same time.

[TweedHeads]

"An influence was Rebol, a shame it’s not more popular"

Then the title is misleading. Rebol as an influence to what?

We should ask that question to Brendan to see what influenced HIM to design javascript as he did.

[BigZaphod]

Javascript is extremely heavily influenced by Self: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_(programming_language)

[middayc]

The first thing he says is that he didn't invent JSON. He also tells who used it a year before as such. Around 8:30 he also explains why he did create a website - to create a "standard" out of it, etc..

It would be better if you watched the video before commenting this.

[antonovka]

JSON as an interchange format was a unique invention. It may not be a very substantial invention, but it was still a new idea.