不管是面向对象编程，还是函数式编程，不论是基督教还是犹太教，我会吸取其中有用的东西，但是不会全盘接受。
Tony Hoare的图灵奖获奖感言中有一句充满了大智慧的话，讲的是设计一个系统的两种方式：“一种是尽量简单，这样显然不会有什么问题；另外一种是，尽量复杂，这样没什么显然的问题。”
后面说的话同样包含智慧，但是知道的人不多：“第一种方法其实更难。它需要从复杂的自然现象中发现简单物理规律的那种技能、投入、洞察力，甚至是那种灵感，同时还需要你能接受你的目标受限于物理、逻辑和科技的约束，以及在目标间有冲突的时候可以妥协。委员会不会这么做，除非已经完全来不及了，不得不做。” (查看原文)
Well, it was decisions like not using C++ and not using threads that made us ship the product on time. The other big thing was we always shipped all platforms simultaneously; that was another thing they thought was just stupid. "Oh, 90 percent of people are using Windows, so we'll focus on the Windows side of things and then we'll port it later." Which is what many other failed companies have done. If you're trying to ship a cross-platform product, history really shows that's how you don't do it. If you want it to really be cross-platform, you have to do them simultaneously. The porting thing results in a crappy product on the second platform. (查看原文)
Oh, it only does what it does because Microsoft stopped letting it improve, so why should we want better syntax; it’s actually a virtue to go lambda-code everything. (查看原文)
It’s very reductionistic and it’s not for everybody.
Subsetting is powerful. But to say everyone has to program in this sort of minuscule subset, that’s not usable.
tries to make everybody into an expert and it will not work on the large number of programmers out there who have been mistrained in these Java schools. (查看原文)
We tried to add doc comments of some sort to ES4 with first-class metadata hooks or reflection hooks and it was just impossible to get everybody to agree. (查看原文)
That was one of the reasons why in JavaScript we were interested in optional typing and we still are, though it’s controversial in the committee. There’s still a strong chance we’ll get some kind of hybrid type system into a future version of JavaScript. (查看原文)
Seibel: Was the ES4 proposal your chance to show the world that, “Look, I’m a really smart guy and JavaScript is a really a good language”?
Eich: No, I don’t think so. I know Doug may think that. I don’t think Doug knows me that well, but the thing is, I’m not really looking for respect, especially from the Java-heads or the trailing edge. (查看原文)
作者: Peter Seibel 副标题: Reflections on the Craft of Programming isbn: 1430219483 书名: Coders at Work 页数: 632 定价: USD 29.99 出版社: Apress 出版年: 2009-9-16 装帧: Paperback
