I loved this two-part essay. Highly recommend it to anyone who hasn’t read it.
— John On Jul 12, 2014, at 7:55 PM, Stefan Karpinski <ste...@karpinski.org> wrote: > Graydon Hoare (original author of Rust) wrote a truly lovely essay in two > parts about the history of programming languages, the predominance of > two-language systems – or "Ousterhout-dichotomy languages," as he puts it – > Lisp's historical defiance of this dichotomy, Dylan as a successor to Lisp, > and finally Julia as a modern successor to Lisp and Dylan: > > http://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/3186.html > http://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/189377.html > > This is a great read and an edifying historical perspective, regardless of > the Julia bit at the end, but may be especially interesting to folks on > julia-users.
