Re: (nrd) Programing languages as wines

[newrisedesigns]

in reply to Programing languages as wines

Could it be that they get better with age?

Perhaps a revival of Lisp, Fortran and COBOL is in order...

John J Reiser
newrisedesigns.com

[Aristotle]

Nooooo, not COBOL! Please! I promise I'll be good.

Lisp and Fortran (esp. the recent, revised versions) do deserve attention though. So do Smalltalk and Prolog. All these "exotic" languages emphasise(sp?) paradigms that are imperative (hah!) to know in order to become a well rounded programmer.

Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
-- Alan Kay

Makeshifts last the longest.

[pfaut]

Chubb stopped offering classes in COBOL. I thought COBOL was dying a well deserved death. And now you are calling for its revival?

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I never liked typing enough to be a COBOL programmer.