Well, actually, it was supposed to be funny. I worked in LISP for a lot of years. When a colleague suggested that I should learn Scheme (WAYYYYY back in the early 90's, mind you), that language's time had already come and gone.
IMO, Age and Obscurity (in languages, at least) are mutually reinforcing resonant death knells. In Snarkiness, --Doug On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 5:14 PM, glen e. p. ropella < [email protected]> wrote: > Thus spake Douglas Roberts circa 12/25/2008 03:40 PM: > > #lisp/scheme Come on. Really. LISP? Scheme?? Happy living in the > > past, are we? > > # c# Icky > > #mozart/oz I'm esoteric. Are you? > > # prolog How '70's. > > How snarky. I hope that's working out for you. > > I tend to believe that every problem has at least one "natural" > language. Solutions to that problem should (where reasonable) be > formulated in its natural language, regardless of the age or obscurity > of the language. > > Plus, I use a lot of legacy tools, written in a lot of different > languages. I'd rather keep a rich tech stack than spend time rewriting > everything from scratch just so I can have it in a particular language. > > -- > glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://agent-based-modeling.com > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > -- Doug Roberts, RTI International [email protected] [email protected] 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell
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