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Even you have years of experience of JavaScript programming, the book JavaScript: The Good Parts still reveals a beautiful, elegant, lightweight and highly expressive parts in a language - ideas such as functions, loose typing, dynamic objects, and an expressive object literal notation in an outstanding object oriented programming language.

These make JavaScript, a sloppy language, become the language of the Web by default today.

Author Douglas Crockford, if you don't know him, he is the creator of JSON and Yahoo UI.