The Next Programming Language

About the speaker - Douglas Crockford

Douglas Crockford is the author of "How JavaScript Works" and "JavaScript: The Good Parts".

He was born in Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, but left when he was only six months old because it was just too damn cold.

He turned his back on a promising career in television when he discovered computers. He has worked in television, learning systems, small business systems, office automation, games, interactive music, multimedia, location-based entertainment, social systems, and programming languages.

He is the inventor of Tilton, the ugliest programming language that was not specifically designed to be an ugly programming language. He is best known for having discovered that there are good parts in JavaScript. That was the first important discovery of the 21st Century. He also discovered the JSON Data Interchange Format, the world’s most loved data format.