Not so! Lisp came a full 14 years before Smalltalk, and Fortran was 4 years before that! Fortran definitely still has strong advocates amongst the scientific community :) Of course, if you want to go all the way back to zealotry over the lambda calculus...
On 30 September 2010 12:03, Vince O'Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sep 29, 8:22 am, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Casper Bang <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I have seen a lot of language advocacy over these past twenty years > > (comp.lang.advocacy ftw!) but none has come even remotely close to the > > intolerance and aggressiveness shown by Scala advocates. Yup, not even > Lisp > > nor Smalltalk zealots. That should tell you something :-) > > But don't forget: Smalltalkers invented language zealotry. Everybody > else is just playing catch up (again). > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- Kevin Wright mail / gtalk / msn : [email protected] pulse / skype: kev.lee.wright twitter: @thecoda -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
