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> Why does the new generation so easily discard this vast amount of wisdom? If you are actually looking to have some input from people who prefer statically ty
by balfirevic 7y ago
> Why does the new generation so easily discard this vast amount of wisdom?
If you are actually looking to have some input from people who prefer statically typed languages about their reasons, you might want to write your comment in a way that does not presuppose that these people are obviously wrong (and, apparently, unwise).
- pjc50 7y agoIndeed. Berating people is the worst form of advocacy. Advocates of LISP and Smalltalk need to come up with reasons why their languages have not won the adoption wars that aren't "everyone else is an idiot" or "if only we told them the gospel they would convert". (In fact, in some ways they've almost overwhelmingly won, it's just that those two particular languages didn't. The bulk of code today is written in the late-binding language Javascript, with its novel prototypical inheritance that enables run time patching. Lots of data is stored in JSON, which is a marginal improvement over S-expressions. Apple have people undramatically writing Objective-C, the Smalltalk inheritor. Perhaps the problem is not that they didn't win but that they aren't being hailed as heroes?)