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Re: Re^4: "There are some stunningly novel ideas in Perl" -- Paul Grahamby demerphq (Chancellor) |
on Apr 29, 2003 at 14:36 UTC ( [id://253955]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I think you're doing all those languages bitter injustice. You aren't the only to overreact to my comments here. I see words like "injustice" and "trashing" and the like. I never said these were bad languages. Just that on the level of general utility there are better ones. Unless you want to argue that Windows is clearly the better operating system amongst its competitors - Actually Windows is a very interesting example of my point about the market being wiser than we give it credit for. It nicely illustrates that despite mindbogglingly huge resources and marketing the market doesn't fall sucker everytime. I take the continued growth of Linux sector to be a good indication that despite propaganda the market figures things out in the end. Combined, these factors mean it can be used for pretty nearly any job - regardless of whether it should. This is a crucial issue. It can't be overlooked. Consequently "modern" languages are drifting towards concepts pioneered by Smalltalk and LISP decades ago. About time I say.. Its interesting isn't it. Kinda reminds me of something else, Knuth debated about whether to remove the extensive coverage of tape based sorting techniques from AoP. In the end he decided not to. He justified his decision on the grounds that some new tchnology may make itself apparent that will require similar strategies to use it efficiently. --- demerphq <Elian> And I do take a kind of perverse pleasure in having an OO assembly language...
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