On Dec 8, 10:22 am, Kevin Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > In Haskell, Clojure, or Scala I can easily take the > infinite collection of integers, double them all, subtract 7, and return > the first 20 resulting values.
That's exactly my point. Regardless of the syntactic sugar new languages bring to the table, the code being written now is essentially identical to what was being turned out thirty or forty years ago. We're still manipulating integers, fiddling with them and returning the results. When I started out as a programmer, back then, I was told it was a dead-end career because "by the end of the century" computers would be able to do do all that stuff themselves and programmers would be history. -- 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.
