Hi Joel,
As a physicist I may add that computer science is in the stone ages compared
to other natural sciences. Somewhere round 1500-1600 compared to physics.
Wish there was a Newton available!
Succes in this context ;-) was meant to evaluate to short-to-midtime
survival via commercial success.
Wouldn't want to call VB a success in any other way ;-) Now Perl is a
different thing...
--maarten
> Hi, Maarten,
>
> Maarten Koopmans wrote:
> >
> > There is no link between benevolent dictators and success.
> > There is no link between open source and success (Delphi, VB, ...)
> >
>
> Let me suggest that there's not a single yardstick for "success".
> There are certainly some measures by which some people would call
> Visual Basic a "success". There are certainly different measures
> by which Perl is considered a "success".
>
> An open marketplace allows the consumer to use her/his own criteria
> to select the product(s) that meet her/his needs, rather than forcing
> all consumers to live with the criteria of a single authority. I
> consider that to be a system-level "success".
>
>
> It will be interesting for us to look back in ten years and see
> whether there are still languages called "Perl" and "Visual Basic"
> being widely used, and -- if so -- what resemblance they bear to
> the artifacts of those same names in 2002. But even long-term
> viability of a label is only one measure of success. Almost
> nobody uses Algol for serious development any more, but it placed
> a number of crucial computing concepts into play which are
> fundamental to current programming practice, thus earning for its
> creators significant standing in the history of computer programming.
>
> Almost nobody remembers the name of the leading wool merchant in
> London during the late 1660's, but almost every educated person
> around the planet knows of, and benefits from the work of, Sir
> Isaac Newton.
>
> How's that for success?
>
>
> -jn-
>
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