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3 unusual facts about Douglas Crockford


Base32

Another alternative design for Base32 is created by Douglas Crockford, who proposes using additional characters for a checksum.

JavaScript syntax

Douglas Crockford advocates the terms "truthy" and "falsy" to describe how values of various types behave when evaluated in a logical context, especially in regard to edge cases.

Prototype-based programming

Prototypal inheritance in JavaScript is described by Douglas Crockford as: you make prototype objects, and then ... make new instances.



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