Thanks to Owen for introducing those of us who were unfamiliar with
Steve Yegge to his blog (http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com). I found the
guy sufficiently entertaining (as well as insightful) to follow the
link from the blog to "Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants" (what a great
name!). In one of his posts (http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/tour-de-babel
), Steve Y writes quite an interesting, and of course, highly
opinionated, discussion of programming languages (including the ever
popular C++ bashing that some of us have indulged in here). His high
opinion of the use of Lisp (and C) in the early days of amazon.com,
and his equally low opinion of the use of C++ later on in the company,
are particularly entertaining.
More fuel for the fire :-)
;; Gary
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