D - Unsafe and doomed

H. S. Teoh hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx
Sat Jan 4 13:02:21 PST 2014


On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 11:07:37AM -0800, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 1/4/2014 4:51 AM, Peter Alexander wrote:
> >It's worth noting that many languages take a long time before they
> >blossom. It took Ruby 10 years before Rails appeared.
> 
> Many languages have a long history before they burst on the scene.
> It's much like rock bands. The Beatles labored fruitlessly for years
> in the salt mines before appearing out of nowhere.

I never trusted in the "hot new emerging trends" thing. Artifacts of
quality take time to produce and develop, and bandwagons have a
reputation of turning out to be disappointments. That goes for
programming languages, and also software in general. What stands the
test of time is what has the real value.


T

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