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So, if you follow your link, you don't see any comment from Eich--just a bunch of angry attacks on him and others (including ESR, fair or not). The linked HN d

So, if you follow your link, you don't see any comment from Eich--just a bunch of angry attacks on him and others (including ESR, fair or not). The linked HN discussion from that link in turn has two top comments basically saying "This doesn't matter (as a Mozilla employee" and "This doesn't matter--his technical work is separate from his private life." So, while it is quite the little tempest in a teapot you're kicking up, I'd like to leave you with a question: What have you done that puts you in a position to justify your criticism? As far as the public image of Mozilla, I personally think it is one of being the last free-ish hackers working on the 'Net, and an appointment of the creator of Javascript is directly in line with that. (Why don't you limit yourself to attacks on the man's work instead of the man? After all, there are parts of JavaScript that can be found to be pretty gay, in any particular meaning of the word you choose. I, for example, find myself giddy every time I get to use functions as arguments to other functions and doing manual application and currying.)

tommorris 13y ago
> After all, there are parts of JavaScript that can be found to be pretty gay, in any particular meaning of the word you choose. How about in the preferring-the-sexual-and-romantic-company-of-the-same-sex sense? Because as a gay man and a programmer (admittedly one that greatly dislikes JavaScript), I'm really failing to work out the connection.
- angersock 13y ago
  Okay, okay, for most meanings of the word you can choose. :| (I think I can maaaaybe stretch it to a joke about semi-colon insertion, but honestly that likely is not the way to proceed here.)
  - ianstormtaylor 13y ago
    I was pretty disappointed to find out you have such high karma and know that most moderating efforts won't do away with useless comments like this in future threads.

tommorris 13y ago

> After all, there are parts of JavaScript that can be found to be pretty gay, in any particular meaning of the word you choose. How about in the preferring-the-sexual-and-romantic-company-of-the-same-sex sense? Because as a gay man and a programmer (admittedly one that greatly dislikes JavaScript), I'm really failing to work out the connection.

angersock 13y ago
Okay, okay, for most meanings of the word you can choose. :| (I think I can maaaaybe stretch it to a joke about semi-colon insertion, but honestly that likely is not the way to proceed here.)
- ianstormtaylor 13y ago
  I was pretty disappointed to find out you have such high karma and know that most moderating efforts won't do away with useless comments like this in future threads.