11 Oct
2007
11 Oct
'07
12:07 p.m.
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Jonathan Cast wrote:
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 21:45 -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: [... re programming language machismo ... ]
Haskell already has that reputation, and so far as I've seen most programmers conclude they shouldn't waste time on it when "any half- trained monkey can write Java/Perl/Python".
And regularly does. Unfortunately, American culture is such that most people *aspire* to being half-trained monkeys...
Yes, when programmers care more about what they're creating, than the tools they create it with, you have to wonder what's become of us. Donn Cave, donn@drizzle.com