Most programming languages contain good and bad parts, but JavaScript has more than a bad segment, which has been developed and released in a hurry before it can be fixed. Authoritative book scrapes away these bad features to reveal a subset of JavaScript that is more reliable, readable, and maintained than-whole language as a subset you can use to make the code truly extensible and efficient. Considered the JavaScript expert by many people in the development community, author Douglas Crockford identifies the abundance of good ideas that make JavaScript an outstanding language object-oriented programming ideas such as functions, loose typing, dynamic objects, and expressive object literal notation. In JavaScript: The Good Parts, Crockford finally digs through the steaming pile of good intentions and error to give you a detailed look at all the truly elegant parts of JavaScript, including: Syntax Objects Functions Inheritance Arrays Regular expressions Methods Style Beautiful features Real beauty? As you move forward with a subset of JavaScript that this book presents, you also will avoid the need to forget all the bad parts.