Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: "Haskell is a scripting language inspired by Python."

On 04/11/2010 08:47 PM, Ketil Malde wrote:

Andrew Coppin writes:

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On a somewhat tangental note: It seems increadible to me that Haskell was invented in 1990, and Miranda way back in 1985. At the same time, Commodore Business Machines released the iconic Commodore 64 in 1982, It is amazing - although as you point out, computers weren't very capable, so although it may have been possible to run Gofer on an Amiga, it was not what the 1337 hackers used for their demos.

But it shows how incredibly inert the field of computer science really is. Or perhaps, how far software engineering is removed from computer science.

Well, mainstream computing seems to be far more driven by economics than technology. It's weird; on the one hand, every new programming language (or product, for that matter) must have some astounding new whizz-bang to make it stand out. And yet, at the same time, it mustn't be too radical, or people might be scared of it...

Makes you wonder what the current day developments are that will be fighting for a corner of the mainstream in thirty years.

Only time will tell.

-k

"If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants" What an oddly apt sentiment...