Slashdot article topical to this thread (i.e. dead technology that hasn't had the good grace to politely stop breathing yet):
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/25/1952258 Tech approaches come and go. The trick is to catch *the* wave, and not fall off. Off Topic: Owen: how do you consistently manage to find such controversial topics to present to the list? Yes, it *is* your fault! ;-} --Doug On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Douglas Roberts <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >> > > > >
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