Crockford on JavaScript - Volume 1: The Early Years

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Official Yahoo YUI recording; a substantive history of language design by one of JavaScript's best-known authorities.

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Douglas Crockford's history of programming languages leading up to JavaScript, the first of his lecture series on the language.

Video by YUI Library, played through YouTube's embedded player.

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