What amused me the most is thumbing through the responses to the article.
There are so many charlatans on the topics of information technology and
especially programming. At least Tim Sweeny has honest-to-god knowledge
and experience of the subject, though unfortunately short-sighted he may be.
I am very pleased to find that mainstream industry is finally heeding such
concepts long found in declarative languages. The languages themselves will
benfit from this. Like Smalltalk, they may not become commonly used, but
people will acknowledge their existence and maybe even their benefits.
Alas, people are not always very rational. Look at the popularity of PERL
for example. That is one thing I will never understand.
best,
leon
haskell devotee
