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The "classless society" was mentioned by Andreas Rossberg, the author of the talk. He works at Google on the JavaScript V8 engine as a compiler engineer and is
by lindig 12y ago
The "classless society" was mentioned by Andreas Rossberg, the author of the talk. He works at Google on the JavaScript V8 engine as a compiler engineer and is on the JavaScript (ECMAScript) language committee. I'd call this pretty well grounded in reality.
- theoh 12y agoI was calling him out on the frivolous and unfunny quip, not implying he isn't a serious programmer. And I don't mean to single him out for criticism in particular, I was just reminded of the Foozles phenomenon: https://wiki.hh.se/wg211/images/5/58/Foozles.pdf https://wiki.hh.se/wg211/images/5/58/Foozles.pdf For me the context here is that Cambridge is a massively elitist centre of frivolous intellectual pursuits, in a country with the highest levels of inequality in Europe. http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/aug/28/closed-shop-deepy-elitist-britain http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/aug/28/closed-shop-d... Perhaps I have a chip on my shoulder about this, but I actually did my undergraduate CS degree in Cambridge before I knew anything about the world so I am at least somewhat qualified to comment on that milieu, from a political point of view. It's cosy but relevance to the everyday life of the masses is not a strong point. I don't have any comment on whether JavaScript implementation details have political consequences.
- lindig 12y agoThe V8 engine is implemented in C++ and so I'm sure Andreas has a good grasp of the relative benefits of FP and OO. In the context of your observation about inequality in the UK I find the "classless society" actually funny.