[masklinn]

> I think it's a bit annoying -- to the point of being disrespectful -- that Brendan doesn't mention V8 in his history of JavaScript

Bullcrap. Why would V8 deserve any more mention than Spidermonkey (which had none, by the way) in a talk about the semantics and language evolutions of javascript when it's Gecko/Spidermonkey which pioneered and implemented roughly 95% of these evolutions in the first place? Why would it deserve more than Trident, which — through xmlhttprequest — is the one responsible for the vast majority of the language's actual popularity? Because it's your pet runtime and you dont like others?

> So it would be nice to see some respect where it's clearly due...

You may want to take this advice for yourself, your comment is dismissive, insulting, contemptuous and contemptible.

[ruggeri]

> You may want to take this advice for yourself, your comment is dismissive, insulting, contemptuous and contemptible.

It was none of those things. You two merely disagree.

[masklinn]

> It was none of those things.

It was, and still is. It chides Eich for not including a blurb about something which has little to no relation with the presentation itself (the presentation's core was not javascript runtime performances or even javascript runtimes in general), and claims "disrespect" over that non-inclusion, all the while — as other commenters also noted — getting most if not all of its assertions wrong.