"For me JavaScript is a lost cause" -Douglas Crockford

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9 pointsPeterUstinox4 comments

I'd rather not listen to the 50-minute audio recording behind the link; what's the context?

I expect that context is going to be key to this quote, and this page doesn't provide any.

mentioned at 47:40

Context is the binary implementation of the Number type. Crockford believes it should be more akin to a fast decimal implementation.

Is the remark which currently comprises the title of this post purely about bignum support? If so, this is the most egregiously linkbaity titling i have ever seen on HN.

And yes, i know, that's the quote that John Cook leads with in his G+ post. That it's a technically correct titling of an indirection to the real content compounds the sin, in my book.

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