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).
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