Completely aside from the content, the article reminds me indirectly of how amazing second, third, etc. order effects can be. Some manager at Netscape decided t

Completely aside from the content, the article reminds me indirectly of how amazing second, third, etc. order effects can be. Some manager at Netscape decided that two weeks was all the time an engineer would get to implement a client-side language almost 25 years ago, and we're still discussing how to hack in tail recursion today.