An interview (from about a year ago) with Paul Graham (co-founder of Viaweb, and author of a few books and many essays, http://www.paulgraham.com):
http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail164.html (audio) http://rdscon.vo.llnwd.net/o1/_downloads/itc/mp3/2004/Paul%20Graham%20-%20Hackers%20and%20Painters.mp3 Some audio clips of note: He has a few nice words about Perl (which is a little unusual, because in his essays I've read he usually just mentions Perl in passing on his way to talk about Python or Lisp; In this case he's already talked about Lisp at some length earlier in the interview). http://www.itconversations.com//clip.php?showid=164&start=20:31&stop=20:54 He says Cobol is an "evolutionary dead-end," and says Java is the new Cobol. It's "written with the same intentions" (a "dumbed down", simplified language [though it'd be hard to argue that it stayed simple]), but is quick to point out that it will be around for a long time, it just won't have any "intellectual descendants." http://www.itconversations.com//clip.php?showid=164&start=18:15&stop=20:31 He talks a bit about hiring programmers, saying that one of the more useful indicators of a good programmer was to ask them what software they worked on outside of work. http://www.itconversations.com//clip.php?showid=164&start=11:30&stop=13:26 -Tom _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
