Nick Sabalausky wrote:
There have been precedents where things sat in relative obscurity for decades before finally catching on. Such as many functional-programming concepts, like map/reduce and no-side-effect programming, which have only recently become highly in-vogue. Or Babbage's analytical engine. Of course, I'm not saying it would be easy, just that I wouldn't necessarily rule it out on that alone.
Sure, but it does give one pause.
