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Douglas Crockford

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Douglas Crockford is an American computer programmer who has been involved in the development of the JavaScript language. He specified JSON, the JavaScript Object Notation data format, and built JavaScript tools such as the static code analyzer JSLint and the minifier JSMin. He wrote the book JavaScript: The Good Parts, published in 2008, followed by How JavaScript Works in 2018. Until 2019 he was a senior JavaScript architect at PayPal, and he continues to write and speak about JavaScript, JSON and related web technologies.

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JSON, Programming Languages
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is an American computer programmer
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Douglas Crockford (Wikipedia)
  • In Field: Web Science, Lead section
    Crockford specified the data format JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)
  • In Group: World Wide Web Pioneers, Lead section
    is also a writer and speaker on JavaScript, JSON, and related web technologies
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created in 2001 by Douglas Crockford
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