##The Programmer's Tales: Prologue ###The Knight
Thomas Shields
There was a geek, a most distinguished man
Who from the day on which he first began
to code JS had done so elegantly -
clean, short, fast, efficiently.
He had fought nobly in the Netscape wars,
And dived right into battle, no code more
than needed in those finicky places -
and ever honored for his tabs, not spaces.
When IE took down Netscape he was there,
agape at CRT, pulling his hair
In horror for shocked he was to see
that all the Web had fallen to IE.
Of prototypes and ES5 knew he;
Of pure JS and none of jQuery;
Of closure knew he and of variable scope,
Of the prototypical model he was pope.
At SO chats he often hapt to be,
He help-ed others to the nth degree.
And he'd fought for the DOM at W3C,
Three times there and thrice at ECMA too -
This same worthy coder had a lot to do
with ES3 (the good parts)
and oft was said that he
whispered Crockford in his sleep.