"Sebastian Sylvan"
You make less bugs with that language? Fucking learn to write C++!
Excuse me?
A probable exclamation of a pointy-haired boss, that is. What I wanted to say is that if you tell such a guy that you'll make less bugs in language X, he would assume that you can't program properly at all or in the language you're supposed to be programming in. As much as I agree with your idealism, the most rigorous proof of the earth being a sphere orbiting the sun could not convince people of the fact that the earth isn't a planar disk, and actual awareness on how the sun "rises" and the sun "sets" is rare even in these days where people accept the fact. Paradigm changes might only take a generation in a scientific community, but it takes close to eons in a society, as its members aren't nearly as involved in the scientific progress, and are (that's a guess now) equally likely to resist a new paradigm as the scientists themselves. The surest thing to make people switch is to make them not aware of it, i.e. make things look exactly like in C, with incremental updates of the same variable and everything, while still retaining a purely functional semantic under the hood. I guess that's why success has to be avoided at all cost. -- (c) this sig last receiving data processing entity. Inspect headers for past copyright information. All rights reserved. Unauthorised copying, hiring, renting, public performance and/or broadcasting of this signature prohibited.