On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 14:30 -0800, Don Stewart wrote: > 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 ;)
Well we have: "The Design and Implementation of Typed Scheme" very recently http://www.ccs.neu.edu/scheme/pubs/popl08-thf.pdf This is something in the "soft typing" tradition (and uses PLT Scheme as the vehicle.) I believe PLT Scheme already supports a HM typed version of Scheme though primarily for pedagogical purposes if I remember correctly. It is however, unlikely that Scheme will ever be statically typed "by default." _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
