"JavaScript: The Good Parts"

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Crockford

http://crockford.com/

The main thesis is that JavaScript is essentially a language in the spirit of Scheme and also Self, a language where inheritance is not class-based, but prototype-based:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_%28programming_language%29

Crockford teaches how to avoid the bad parts of JavaScript, and how to write nice functional JavaScript, with closures and everything.

Comments

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JavaScript is essentially a language in the spirit of Scheme

Of course it is. I have the book, although have not gone through it yet. (And I have yet to look at Self.)