On Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:25:33 +0100, Vince O'Sullivan
<[email protected]> wrote:
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.
If you put it in that perspective, ok, nothing will ever change.
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