On 21 April 2016 at 18:11, Swift Griggs <swiftgri...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm not saying everything was perfect in the 80's or 90's. I mean, some > CS professors in the 90's were teaching Oberon, LISP dialects, or > Smalltalk. Then if you ever uttered the (completely true) phrase "not > commercially viable" they'd launch into some diatribe about how these > languages taught you some kind of special spiritual meta-programming > that'd ultimately path the path for you to become some kind of code-God > (like them?).
Wow. That is really remarkably narrow-minded and I'm not even slightly surprised that you've had some strongly negative reactions already. While I personally find Lisp to be unreadable, nonetheless, it's enabled people to do some wholly remarkable things, and it certainly seems to deserve all the plaudits it has received. http://www.paulgraham.com/quotes.html http://lispers.org/ Oberon "not commercially viable"? That's a remarkably foolish, short-sighted and ignorant thing to say. Oberon is what Pascal grew up into, and I think a million-odd Delphi programmers would have very strong words with you that the Pascal family isn't commercially viable. And you do know what Apple MacOS was originally written in, don't you? I wrote about Oberon myself recently: -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702 829 053 (ČR)