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>It seems the language is not this cutting edge technology it was once. Was it really cutting edge? I understood it as an improved OOP-only Perl. Rails, on the
by flavio81 9y ago
>It seems the language is not this cutting edge technology it was once.
Was it really cutting edge? I understood it as an improved OOP-only Perl. Rails, on the other hand, did knock me out the first time I saw it.
I guess few languages can be called 'cutting edge', perhaps the ML family including Haskell and (yes, after all these years) the Lisp dialects.
- goatlover 9y agoWell, they were cutting edge decades ago, it just took mainstream programming languages a long time to catch up (sort of). For example, you see macros in Elixir, Julia and Crystal, which are all newer languages.