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What do you say to people like Guy Steele who believe that small languages that can be grown by their users are the way forward, and do not want to pay to use a

• taliesinb 13y ago
  Thanks for the talk, I'll watch it tomorrow (gotta catch Snowden's interview at 10am). But in the meantime, I'd say: pick your battles. Many developers, including me, moved from Linux to OS X so they could get on with their lives. And we pay for things much lower on the abstraction hierarchy: CPUs and GPUs and their proprietary IP, physical hardware, various industry-group protocols and standards, OSes in some cases, hosting. And we know from experience that the whole hierarchy tends to move down as we build on it -- maybe the time has come for that to happen to languages, too. If, in time, the things that WL is doing inspire higher-level, free languages to raise the abstraction (and semantic) bar, I think we'll all benefit. For now, we can only do what we do because we're a private company.