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I think the whole issue of having a great programming language is a mute point in the current software industry, because average programmers don't know how to u
by coliveira 5y ago
I think the whole issue of having a great programming language is a mute point in the current software industry, because average programmers don't know how to use it. That's why the winners have always be languages that appeal to the minimum common denominator, just the bare enough for people to write programers in the simple way they know. Lisp provide a lot of flexibility and power, but if programmers don't know how to use it, it is instead viewed as a liability.
- stan_rogers 5y agoTiny niggle about a well-known phrase and a word that is not particularly well-known outside of the phrase anymore: the word is moot. (A moot used to be a meeting or assembly of people who would discuss and decide things, often Very Important Things™. Nowadays, moot is mostly an adjective referring to things that might be debatable, but the only benefit to debating them would be the debate itself.)
- selimthegrim 5y agoOne can still say "to moot an issue for discussion (bring up an issue)" but what also fascinates me is the other meaning for mute involving bird evacuation. I have to wonder what happened in Latin?