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If you were teleported back to the early 1990s then what, at that time, was the most progressive programming language available? I note that both ML and Erlang
by gorgoiler 3y ago
If you were teleported back to the early 1990s then what, at that time, was the most progressive programming language available?
I note that both ML and Erlang were around at the time. I have no experience with or knowledge of Lisp in production to know if it’s a serious answer or not. For me, Lisp has always been there as a timeless alternative in the same way that visiting the countryside is always an option in between feverish daily life in whichever city I live in at the moment.
- jeremyjh 3y agoPerl, if you are talking about stuff widely used in industry.
- csdvrx 3y ago> Perl, if you are talking about stuff widely used in industry. I love perl! Last year for Christmas the release of cosmopolitan perl inspired me to write a perl web server: https://github.com/csdvrx/PerlPleBean/ https://github.com/csdvrx/PerlPleBean/ It may have been an exercise in futility in 2022, but it taught me many things about the http protocol (and it was fun)
- ghaff 3y agoMid-90s is probably something related to the web and Perl is a good candidate.
- Jtsummers 3y agoLisp was well-established in its niche by the early 90s and just about to come (finish?) crashing down in usage numbers. The second edition of Common Lisp the Language was published in 1990, and the ANSI standard was published in 1994.
- fiddlerwoaroof 3y agoCommon Lisp is a great experience in production
- pvg 3y agoThe biggest difference between then and now is not really the 'progressiveness' of the languages but that the tooling is free. It's nigh-impossible for a non-free language to gain serious traction today. Another important one is some degree of cross-platform capability - also pretty much table stakes today (it helps that the platforms are significantly more homogenous) but less common (and/or pricier) back then.