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posted by n1 on Tuesday September 06 2016, @09:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-conference-for-old-men dept.

Douglas Crockford (JSON, JSLint, JSMin, Javascript: The Good Parts) is a founding father of modern Javascript. He is a frequent speaker on the Javascript circuit and, until recently, was the scheduled as the keynote speaker for the Nodevember Conference. For reasons no one can explain, he was removed from the conference schedule to help foster inclusivity. No one (including Crockford) knows why he was banned. Internet commenters have speculated it may have been due to a talk titled "Monads and Gonads" or slut shaming the "promiscuous" web or a his use of the gender (and species) exclusive phrase "hanging out there like a pair of dog balls". Others believe it's because he's a curmudgeon (aka grumpy old white cis heterosexual man). One of the Nodevember organizers (not involved with the decision to ban Crockford) has stepped down.

This is not the first time Crockford has experienced censorship -- he previously ported Maniac Mansion to the NES.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by stormwyrm on Wednesday September 07 2016, @06:44AM

    by stormwyrm (717) on Wednesday September 07 2016, @06:44AM (#398598) Journal
    This is old hat in Lisp. It was noticed long ago that the closures created by functions in Lisp were essentially equivalent to objects [c2.com]. It irritates me that most of the hits when searching for the equivalence of closures and objects refer to that JavaScript idiom rather than in Lisp where it originated.
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  • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Wednesday September 07 2016, @08:12AM

    by TheRaven (270) on Wednesday September 07 2016, @08:12AM (#398614) Journal
    That's a very verbose brain dump. For a more elegant treatment of the concept, I'd advise you to look at the Composite Object Lambda Architecture model from VPRI.
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