On Feb 17, 2008 10:39 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 07:41:29PM -0800, Chuck Esterbrook wrote: > > > If it's THAT hard of a language to learn, then it's doomed to utter > > > failure. > > For better or for worse, you are probably right. > > Or it could be like Paul Graham's story with Lisp. The few people > who DO take the time do learn it can do magic and make millions on a > nice startup.... until a company buys you out and reimplements > all that gold Haskell code in C++. :/
Um, yeah. If you learn LISP or Haskell really well then you will become a millionaire. There are many factors in whether your startup makes it on its own and/or gets bought out. I feel that Paul over generalizes from his own experiences. Some dot com millionaires were using Java and some LISPers are, no doubt, still poor. -Chuck -- http://cobra-language.com/ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
