We all find the good parts in the products that we use. We value simplicity, and when simplicity isn’t offered to us, we make it ourselves. My microwave oven has tons of features, but the only ones I use are cook and the clock. And setting the clock is a struggle. We cope with the complexity of feature-driven design by finding and sticking with the good parts.
It would be nice if products and programming languages were designed to have only good parts. (查看原文)
When Java applets failed, JavaScript became the language of the Web by default, making its popularity almost completely independent of its qualities as a programming language. (查看原文)
The function object created by a function literal contains a link to that outer context. This is called closure. This is the source of enormous expressive power. (查看原文)
When I was a young journeyman programmer, I would learn about every feature of the languages I was using, and I would attempt to use all of those features when I wrote. ... Most programming languages contain good parts and bad parts. I discover that I could be a better programmer by using only the good parts and avoiding the bad parts. (查看原文)
