On Mon, 11 Jun 07 11:27:48 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >This is getting really interesting. I'm beginning to understand >why history has to repeat itself. People can't tolerate that >the "new" thing isn't new. For some reason, they must think >it will take away from their glory of "doing it first". This >has got to be related to the psychological obsession about "the >10 best" of something.
Look at the world of art, where "innovative" appears to be far more attractive than "beautiful". They keep having to come up for new words for "new" to separate it from the previous generation's "new". But it isn't just "kid's music", it is "kid's programming language" as well. People want to do it their way. And it's probably better than trying to compare it with traditional ways. (In baseball people are worried that Bonds will break "the most hallowed record in baseball" - but the NFL doesn't have such reverence for individual records, and just does its job entertaining). I'm a CoBOL programmer - the kids don't even study CoBOL anymore. But at least we can judge the technology by actual business results. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
