election details *PLEASE READ*

Roel Wuyts Roel.Wuyts at ulb.ac.be
Wed Feb 21 22:03:54 UTC 2007


Yes and no.

I was at a Prolog conference once, and they were saying the exact  
same thing about Prolog, which made me laugh my head of (having heard  
this so many times at Smalltalk conferences). Lisp people also seem  
to think that Lisp is perfect...

Broadening this a bit: these three language families (Logic  
programming, functional programming and (pure) object-oriented  
programming are all considered 5th generation languages. I often  
wonder why none of these well-designed, clean languages were never  
really popular. I actually believe that this is one of the deep,  
underlying reasons: people that embrace this language and get it are  
so hooked that they are absorbed and never get out again. This is  
what Andreas is pointing to.

On 21 Feb 2007, at 21 February/10:25, Cees de Groot wrote:

> On 2/21/07, Göran Krampe <goran at krampe.se> wrote:
>> Sidenote: I have toyed with an idea that a Module would simply  
>> consist of
>> a serialized object chunk (normally a Set of classes a la an mcz  
>> snapshot)
>> that has required inputs in the form of a list of globals and offered
>> outputs in the form of a list of globals.
>
> Would be neat.
>
> On stealing/enhancing: Aspect/S, SmallInterfaces, Traits, Squeak/E,
> ... - there's a lot already. However, contrary to mainstream
> languages, we're at such a high level that it is *hard* to adopt
> enhancements that really make the language better...
>




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