[FRIAM] Poll: which scripting languages are available on your computer?

[Douglas Roberts]

Well, actually, it was supposed to be funny.  I worked in LISP for a lot of
years.  When a colleague suggested that I should learn Scheme (WAYYYYY back
in the early 90's, mind you), that language's time had already come and
gone.

IMO, Age and Obscurity (in languages, at least) are mutually reinforcing
resonant death knells.

In Snarkiness,

--Doug

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 5:14 PM, glen e. p. ropella <
gepr at agent-based-modeling.com> wrote:

> Thus spake Douglas Roberts circa 12/25/2008 03:40 PM:
> > #lisp/scheme    Come on.   Really.  LISP? Scheme??  Happy living in the
> > past, are we?
> > # c#   Icky
> > #mozart/oz   I'm esoteric.  Are you?
> > # prolog  How '70's.
>
> How snarky.  I hope that's working out for you.
>
> I tend to believe that every problem has at least one "natural"
> language.  Solutions to that problem should (where reasonable) be
> formulated in its natural language, regardless of the age or obscurity
> of the language.
>
> Plus, I use a lot of legacy tools, written in a lot of different
> languages.  I'd rather keep a rich tech stack than spend time rewriting
> everything from scratch just so I can have it in a particular language.
>
> --
> glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://agent-based-modeling.com
>
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