25 Apr
2016
25 Apr
'16
7:38 a.m.
On 21 April 2016 at 18:11, Swift Griggs <swiftgriggs at gmail.com> wrote:
I'm not saying everything was perfect in the
80's or 90's. I mean, some
CS professors in the 90's were teaching Oberon, LISP dialects, or
Smalltalk. Then if you ever uttered the (completely true) phrase "not
commercially viable" they'd launch into some diatribe about how these
languages taught you some kind of special spiritual meta-programming
that'd ultimately path the path for you to become some kind of code-God
(like them?).
Wow. That is really remarkably narrow-minded and I'm not even slightly
surprised that you've had some strongly negative reactions already.
While I personally find Lisp to be unreadable, nonetheless, it's
enabled people to do some wholly remarkable things, and it certainly
seems to deserve all the plaudits it has received.
http://www.paulgraham.com/quotes.html
http://lispers.org/
Oberon "not commercially viable"? That's a remarkably foolish,
short-sighted and ignorant thing to say. Oberon is what Pascal grew up
into, and I think a million-odd Delphi programmers would have very
strong words with you that the Pascal family isn't commercially
viable.
And you do know what Apple MacOS was originally written in, don't you?
I wrote about Oberon myself recently:
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