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"... Those who started programming in the 1990s came of age when a major revolution was being effected by Java. ..." Java revolutionary? C was revolutionary.
by bootload 16y ago
"... Those who started programming in the 1990s came of age when a major revolution was being effected by Java. ..."
Java revolutionary?
C was revolutionary. It allowed hardware independence compared to assembler. BASIC was revolutionary because it made programming a computer easy enough for kids. Perl was revolutionary to hack the web, as is PHP. TMTOWTDI. But the true revolutionary language is still probably Lisp. Python, Ruby, Javascript are still evolving in a Lispy sort of direction.
- chromatic 16y agoJava revolutionary? It dragged C++ programmers halfway to Lisp, in the sense that hardware abstraction through a VM and automatic GC gradually became acceptable.
- bootload 16y ago"... It dragged C++ programmers halfway to Lisp, in the sense that hardware abstraction through a VM and automatic GC gradually became acceptable. ..." that's funny in a bad sort of way, funny but true.