On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 11:07:37AM -0800, Walter Bright wrote: > On 1/4/2014 4:51 AM, Peter Alexander wrote: > >It's worth noting that many languages take a long time before they > >blossom. It took Ruby 10 years before Rails appeared. > > Many languages have a long history before they burst on the scene. > It's much like rock bands. The Beatles labored fruitlessly for years > in the salt mines before appearing out of nowhere.
I never trusted in the "hot new emerging trends" thing. Artifacts of quality take time to produce and develop, and bandwagons have a reputation of turning out to be disappointments. That goes for programming languages, and also software in general. What stands the test of time is what has the real value. T -- It said to install Windows 2000 or better, so I installed Linux instead.
