An opinionated history of programming languages
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An opinionated history of programming languages
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Re: An opinionated history of programming languages
#2Maybe my color perception is off, but it looks like Python is considered a root language with no significant predecessors. Which doesn't seem correct - Python wasn't so novel that it introduced new programming paradigms.
Also, no asterisk (modern, mature compiler & runtime) for OCaml?
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#3The author marked Clojure as a "dying language". I'd be interested to find out the metric by which this is true. In my experience, it is very much alive and thriving.
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#4Interesting thoughts. I wanted the columns in the graph to mean something, perhaps as a spectrum from functional to object-oriented, but that wasn't the author's intent.
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#5Ruby is dying and Perl is not?? I guess this is "really" opinionated...
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#6Maybe my color perception is off, but it looks like Python is considered a root language with no significant predecessors. Which doesn't seem correct - Python wasn't so novel that it introduced new programming paradigms. Also, no asterisk (modern, mature compiler & runtime) for OCaml?
The arrows showed descent from C and Perl.
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#7Ruby is dying and Perl is not?? I guess this is "really" opinionated...
For that matter, PHP is conspicuously absent, for all I'm no fan.
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#8Seems like some tree-roots are missing -- Algol??! PL/(I/M)? B(CPL)? Snobol? APL? Simula? Link between Smalltalk and C++?
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#9The author marked Clojure as a "dying language". I'd be interested to find out the metric by which this is true. In my experience, it is very much alive and thriving.
Is the language community net growing or shrinking though? A language can be very alive and still not be experiencing tremendous growth.
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#10The author marked Clojure as a "dying language". I'd be interested to find out the metric by which this is true. In my experience, it is very much alive and thriving.
Can you elaborate on your experience?
I have great respect for Rich Hickey and I recently saw a cool talk about a financial startup using Clojure in production [1]. I have kept track of the language for some time but have never had the chance to use it in any serious capacity.