I 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 particu

I 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.