Hi Bill,
Which king spread Facebook or Google or . . . .
Which is a closer analogy, one computer system to another or a computer
system to a religion?
Don
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From: "bill lam" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2009 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Jchat] Language S
> On Sat, 25 Apr 2009, Don Watson wrote:
>> APL spread, not from the top down, but from the bottom up. I first
>> met
>
> I believe the opposite: a programming language will enter main stream
> not from the bottom up, but from top down. iirc, an analogy is that
> the buddha once told a king that only kings can spread buddhism.
> Apologise for my pessimistic view.
>
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