lurker721

So the format he wrote about is not the format he participated in. But he somehow neglected to mention that fact.

Nice.

> "Jack McCordick... and his teammates from Regis High School won the high school debating national championship this year."

As far as I can tell, this claim is made up.

Here's the full results packet form the 2017 National Championship: http://results.speechanddebate.org/2017/posting/2017%20Resul....

Cmd-F McCordick: 0 results. (Did not even participate?)

Cmd-F Regis: 5th place in public forum (Eoin Matthews & Randall Zuccalmaglio).

Consider these two paraphrased arguments against Crockford, each made independently by many poster-programmers here:

(1) I don't like comments, but removing them won't solve anything: People who like comments can just embed them as funky properties.

(2) I like comments, but embedding them as funky properties is annoying and awkward, and I don't want to.

Now look at (1).

Now look at (2).

Now relax your eyes like you're looking at a stereoscopic poster until (1) and (2) merge together and you achieve a Zen-like understanding -- or a view of a schooner.