JavaScript Creator Talks About the Future 305
mikejuk writes "JavaScript is currently an important language — possibly the most important of all the languages at this point in time. So an impromptu talk at JSConf given by the creator of JavaScript, Brendan Eich, is not something to ignore. He seems to be a worried about the way committees define languages and wants ordinary JavaScript programmers to get involved."
Re:Most important of all? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Enough pussy-footing ... (Score:5, Funny)
... how do you really feel?
Re:Most important of all? (Score:3, Funny)
If C and C++ were to vanish overnight we'd be back in the stone age.
Uuum, C/C++ is the stone age!
If one would have written that stuff today instead of in the stone age, one would use the radical cool new language of today: Haskell.
Re:Most important of all? (Score:4, Funny)
Haskell will lose it's cool when someone writes a real program in it and not just code examples.