It's like roads really. We still lay down surfaces for them, and sit in something with wheels and a source of locomotion.
Carriages will always be carriages, it's really only a minor trivial detail if they happen to be horseless nowadays, the essence of the thing is completely unchanged! On 8 December 2011 13:45, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]>wrote: > 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. > > > -- 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.
