The Next Big Language
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The Next Big Language
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Re: The Next Big Language
#2Ahh... I think we all miss Big Stevey. He role was never replaced and it's a shame for our entire community.
I'm glad this was posted. It was written four years ago (Feb. 2007), and his quote is, "[The NBL] is going to arrive very soon (timeline: 18-24 months ...)" He later gave away that he was thinking the NBL was to be server-side Javascript. You have to hand it to him; that was a great guess, even if the timeline was off.
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#3I seem to recall an interview he gave in which he stated that NBL was Javascript 2.
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#4Yeah, I was reading that going "Scala, Scala, Scala, dynamic typing? #$(^(*@)#$" I'm pretty sure that the NBL will continue to be whatever large and influential organization wants it to be.
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#5Ahh... I think we all miss Big Stevey. He role was never replaced and it's a shame for our entire community. I'm glad this was posted. It was written four years ago (Feb. 2007), and his quote is, "[The NBL] is going to arrive very soon (timeline: 18-24 months ...)" He later gave away that he was thinking the NBL was to be server-side Javascript. You have to hand it to him; that was a great guess, even if the timeline…
Maybe you're already aware of this, but a few months ago he started occasionally posting again -- here's his "I'm back" post: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2010/07/blogger-finger.html.
That said, I miss his longer-form and more frequent posts too.
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#6I didn't realize how old this was, which tells you something about how prescient Yegge's writing can be. I would have added "pattern matching", though. At a minimum, keyword arguments or syntactic sugar for them.
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#7Yeah, I was reading that going "Scala, Scala, Scala, dynamic typing? #$(^(*@)#$" I'm pretty sure that the NBL will continue to be whatever large and influential organization wants it to be.
While I'm not sure Scala is the Language of the Future™, it's relevant to this discussion to point out that the method_missing hacks that make ruby's dynamic typing so attractive are being actively prototyped in Scala.
An example snippet: https://gist.github.com/783394
The implementation: http://lampsvn.epfl.ch/trac/scala/changeset/23993
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#8I am really hesitating to mention this but maybe the discussion could help find a solution.
The submitter clearly pasted the correct URL and got a link to the original submission (1311 days ago) but went ahead and added "?" to the end of the url to fool the dup filter and submitted again. It is not even a case of two different urls to the same dynamically generated page!
I don't want to rush to accusation of karma whoring because maybe there is a value in reposting old article that some people might have not seen ... But something feels sub-optimal!
Maybe an automatic "best of this week in HN" page that shows the highest rated stories from a few years back that people can casually check for older interesting articles?
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#9Ahh... I think we all miss Big Stevey. He role was never replaced and it's a shame for our entire community. I'm glad this was posted. It was written four years ago (Feb. 2007), and his quote is, "[The NBL] is going to arrive very soon (timeline: 18-24 months ...)" He later gave away that he was thinking the NBL was to be server-side Javascript. You have to hand it to him; that was a great guess, even if the timeline…
Maybe you're already aware of this, but a few months ago he started occasionally posting again -- here's his "I'm back" post: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2010/07/blogger-finger.html . That said, I miss his longer-form and more frequent posts too.
I wonder how he feels about clojure after ~6 months.
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#10I read throught it full of hope and expectations, Then saw the date. 2007. the NBL was said to show up within two years. Another lesson to a) check the sources. b) remember to be wary of the "I see the future" types of article.