Lambda the Ultimate

I guess we should note the attempts to smooth over the split amongst implementers that is going down in the JavaScript community with the Oslo Summit and Harmony trying to bring back peace. All programming languages are politics. The attempt to do the right things runs into competing interests and debates over what is the right thing to do. The split in the JavaScript community has been apparent now for a while, with the incrementalists wrapped up in version 3.1 and the more ambitious wrapped up in 4.0. Here's hoping that the wheels don't fall off. From a programming language standpoint, the particulars aren't as interesting as observing how language evolution takes place.