Memories of Mozilla at 15 and Thoughts on Mozilla Research

Post by BrendanEich » Sat, Apr 06, 2013, 6:14 PM UTC

OrsenPike wrote: post #18

wslh wrote: post #9

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You can't compare Google Research against Mozilla Research. Google is really moving computer science forward, just look at their papers and real implementations (disclaimer: I am not a Google fan). If you compare the Google Chrome source code vs Firefox you will quickly understand how miles ahead Google is.

To be fair though Chrome was started from scratch in 2007/2008 whereas Firefox has a lot of legacy stuff still hanging around from the early 2000s.

Chrome started in 2006.

WebKit forked KHTML in 2005.

KHTML actually started in late '98 if memory serves, when we rebooted Mozilla around Gecko.

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Post by BrendanEich » Sun, Apr 07, 2013, 9:53 PM UTC

pohl wrote: post #23

gabriel wrote: post #22

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There was a link: http://www.norvig.com/design-patterns/ I think you are looking for an exact quote but the link is to slides of a talk :( I also agree with the sentiment, but you Architecture Astronaut will no doubt disagree. You really can't just take a design pattern and apply it blindly across languages. I spend far too much of my time on a C# application where I have to deconstruct anti-patterns and make them mo…

Yeah, I've shared that sentiment for a while now, but it was the turn of phrase that pulled me in, and I wanted to know whether to attribute it to Peter or Brendan.

I turned that particular phrase based on Peter Norvig's old Harlequin-era talk.

I've also heard people say that "design patterns are feature requests", or "the kindest form of feature request", but bug or feature -- what's the difference?

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