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No Smalltalk or Lisp? Seems like an odd list.
by adamc 18y ago
No Smalltalk or Lisp? Seems like an odd list.
- omnipath 18y agoWhat about Assembly and C?
- nickb 18y agoor Ruby. Some of the smartest hackers now use Ruby.
- 10ren 18y agoAnd no Scheme (Guy Steel is perhaps the broadest language designer there is). It's perhaps to do with who had time/was willing to have a conversation.
- chromatic 18y agoI've worked on many interview projects before; it's always about who has time and interest to have a conversation.
- stcredzero 18y agoI suspect that success with creating a language depends a lot on the ego and personality of the creator. The network effects, the community, the culture, the shared wealth of libraries and code all have as big an impact on success as technical excellence of the language itself. I might be downmodded for this, but I suspect that Python is a success in large part because Guido has big cohones! (Especially when it comes to saying no to people smarter than him.) (Note, this comes from a long time Smalltalker.)
- IsaacSchlueter 18y agoAgreed. Of course, talking to the creator of Lisp would be tricky. I wonder why Javascript was not included. It is the native language of the largest and most relevant software platform in the world.
- berntb 18y ago>> Of course, talking to the creator of Lisp would be tricky. Huh, McCarthy lives according to Wikipedia. Doesn't he give interviews?
- owinebarger 18y agoHint: Some people believe Lisp was a discovery, not an invention.
- berntb 18y agoSaw this late, but anyway... You can make a good argument about lambda-notation and Lisp, etc. BUT people talk about creators of types of mathematics. Newton and Leibniz developed calculus, etc. (Maybe sloppy, but a common colloquialism.)