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"A good language is not a revolutionary one, indeed, but it's kind of depressing that the state of the art is the same as 30-40 years ago, and it sometimes seem
by j_baker 17y ago
"A good language is not a revolutionary one, indeed, but it's kind of depressing that the state of the art is the same as 30-40 years ago, and it sometimes seems that language-designers haven't learned anything."
I think it's just a sign that computer science is a maturing field. After all, I don't hear civil engineers complaining that the fundamental concepts of building a bridge haven't changed much in the last ~2000 years.
- bad_user 17y agoFrom my POV, it's a sign that we are becoming more shallow.
- kraemate 17y agoYeah, i dont hear people blaming civil engineers because all the bridges that they build collapse spontaneously or which need to be replaced every 6 months or which work only with 5 wheel cars. 'Computer Science' is going backwards fast, and we all know it.
- ramchip 17y agoBackwards? Come on. Write a Parsec-based parser, build a GUI with Qt, make a web app with Rails or Clojure or whatever you like - then compare your experience to what it would have been 10 or 20 years ago.