Comments by "Cees Timmerman" (@CTimmerman) on "The Post JavaScript Apocalypse - Douglas Crockford" video.

  1. "Apocalypse" is Greek for "revelation". I think he's presenting "Lessons learned from JavaScript" with a more clickbaity title.
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  2. 8:20 One way you say? Brainfuck is even more that than Python. Tabs spark my joy as it gets rid of the indentation war (2 spaces, 3 spaces, 4 spaces, 8?!).
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  3. 48:02 and 49:45 - What about eval()?
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  4. Such as not being hammered down as much as things tend to be in Javaland?
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  5. So you're saying "plain-as-day bad idea = variable names with spaces"? It would confuse Lisp and CoffeeScript without additional parentheses.
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  6. To prevent confusion, a Python fan like me would allow single spaces surrounded by alphanumerical characters as variables (no dashes like in Lisp), between parentheses as parameters separated by commas. I think autocomplete would prefer snake_case, camelCase, and PascalCase, though.
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  7. Python supports big math, whereas Java gives annoying overflow bugs.
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  8. Simply count your finger bends and tips 4x4 + 3 per hand.
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