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Considering that Lisp failed to get to the top 10 between 1958 and 2004, it was pretty dump to predict it would suddenly rise to the top.

• friendly_chap 14y ago
  Predicting that a language without a type system is the future is pretty dumb in itself. I give y'all an other one: "cars without brakes are the future".
  • stewbrew 14y ago
    I simply assume that with "type system" you mean "statically typed language" since lisp is strongly typed, which implies having a "type system": bigloo & typed racket demonstrated that static typing & lisp/scheme aren't incompatible. That prediction was rather unlikely to come true, anyway.
    • friendly_chap 14y ago
      It is entirely unscientific, but let me approach this problem from a practical ($$$) angle: A type system is something what effortlessly reveals programming errors before my customers do.
  • experiment0 14y ago
    Well Lisp is dynamically typed and Javascript, Ruby and Python seem to be doing pretty well.
  • wcchandler 14y ago
    Brakes are a complete waste of energy...
  • cdf 14y ago
    Well, not sure about cars, but bicycles without brakes are getting pretty hip...
    • friendly_chap 14y ago
      :D Good catch.
  • bnegreve 14y ago
    Well Clojure is actually a lisp dialect, more generally speaking, functional programming languages get more attention nowadays than back in 2004. Since 2004, we have F# Clojure, Scala was released in 2003.... Considering how hard it is to predict the future, I would say it is a pretty accurate prediction.