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Re: What's a good Javascript book?

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From Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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Patricia Shanahan wrote:

> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> Patricia Shanahan wrote:
>>> [An object] could be implemented using a combined doubly linked list and
>>> hash table, similar to Java's LinkedHashMap. Append each new entry to
>>> the linked list, use the hash map to find entries, and update the linked
>>> list when an item is removed. The linked list is used to iterate in
>>> order of appearance.
>>>
>>> However, JavaScript has a fairly complicated scope structure.
>> 
>> First of all, JavaScript is an implementation of ECMAScript.  One of
>> many. And ECMAScript gives its conforming implementations a wide
>> latitude. Ascribing features of the standard to the implementation of the
>> standard and vice-versa is the first capital beginner's mistake in this
>> field:
>> 
>> <http://PointedEars.de/es-matrix>
> 
> While technically correct, this seems perhaps just a shade pedantic.

Yes, it only seems to be so.  But apparently it takes years of experience to 
see that.

> For example, most of the books that have been mentioned favorably in
> this thread include the same beginner mistake in their titles.

So what?  I cannot recommend any of those books for that and other reasons 
either.  That something is in a book does not mean it is correct or any 
good.  Books need to *sell*.


PointedEars
-- 
Sometimes, what you learn is wrong. If those wrong ideas are close to the 
root of the knowledge tree you build on a particular subject, pruning the 
bad branches can sometimes cause the whole tree to collapse.
  -- Mike Duffy in cljs, <news:Xns9FB6521286DB8invalidcom@94.75.214.39>

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                Re: What's a good Javascript book? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-10-12 09:49 -0700
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                Re: What's a good Javascript book? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-10-12 13:17 -0700
                Re: What's a good Javascript book? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-12 20:32 +0100
                Re: What's a good Javascript book? John G Harris <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2012-10-13 10:50 +0100
                Re: What's a good Javascript book? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-13 19:45 +0100
                Re: What's a good Javascript book? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-10-13 21:55 +0200
                Re: What's a good Javascript book? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-13 21:52 +0100
                Re: What's a good Javascript book? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-10-13 23:49 +0200
                Re: What's a good Javascript book? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-10-13 23:57 +0200
                Re: What's a good Javascript book? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-13 23:34 +0100
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