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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".
by 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 agoI 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 agoIt 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 agoWell Lisp is dynamically typed and Javascript, Ruby and Python seem to be doing pretty well.
- wcchandler 14y agoBrakes are a complete waste of energy...
- cdf 14y agoWell, not sure about cars, but bicycles without brakes are getting pretty hip...
- friendly_chap 14y ago:D Good catch.
- bnegreve 14y agoWell 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.