brian.sniffen: > On Jan 27, 2008 3:49 AM, Bulat Ziganshin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > a few months ago i > > have a conversation with today student and they still learn Lisp (!!!). > > it seems that they will switch to more modern FP languages no earlier > > that this concrete professor, head of PL department, which in 60s done > > interesting AI research, will dead, or at least go to the pension > > I dunno. Sussman and Abelson are not getting any younger, and neither > is Felleisen, but others have taken up that torch. So far, those who > waited for Lisp to die out have spent a long time waiting. It has not > been a winning bet. >
And just as PLT Scheme announces they're moving to immutable, pure lists http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2631 They'll be getting a type system soon, at this rate ;) -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
