Douglas Crockford
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Douglas Crockford is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur who is involved in the development of the JavaScript language.
He popularized the data format JSON （JavaScript Object Notation）, and has developed various JavaScript related tools such as JSLint and JSMin.
He was a senior JavaScript architect at PayPal until 2019, and is also a writer and speaker on JavaScript, JSON, and related web technologies.
Crockford earned a degree in Radio and Television from San Francisco State University in 1975.
He took classes in FORTRAN and worked with a university lab's computer.
Crockford purchased an Atari 8-bit computer in 1980 and wrote the game Galahad and the Holy Grail for the Atari Program Exchange （APX）, which resulted in Chris Crawford hiring him at Atari, Inc.
While at Atari, Crockford wrote another game, Burgers!, for APX and a number of experimental audio/visual demos that were freely distributed.
After Warner Communications sold the company, he joined National Semiconductor.
In 1984 Crockford joined Lucasfilm, and later Paramount Pictures.
He became known on video game oriented listservs in the early 1990s after he posted his memoir "The Expurgation of Maniac Mansion" to a videogaming bulletin board.
The memoir documented his efforts to censor the computer game Maniac Mansion to Nintendo's satisfaction so that they could release it as a cartridge, and Crockford's mounting frustrations as Nintendo's demands became more obscure and confusing.
Together with Randy Farmer and Chip Morningstar, Crockford founded Electric Communities and was its CEO from 1994 to 1995.
He was involved in the development of the programming language E. Crockford was the foun...