Re: Re[2]: The programming language market (was Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why functional programming matters

On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 17:25 -0500, Brian Sniffen wrote:

On Jan 27, 2008 3:49 AM, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:

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a few months ago i have a conversation with today student and they still learn Lisp (!!!). it seems that they will switch to more modern FP languages no earlier that this concrete professor, head of PL department, which in 60s done interesting AI research, will dead, or at least go to the pension

I dunno. Sussman and Abelson are not getting any younger, and neither is Felleisen, but others have taken up that torch. So far, those who waited for Lisp to die out have spent a long time waiting. It has not been a winning bet.

No language that was ever "popular" has ever died as far as I can tell.