How Nested Functions Work, part 2

[Walter Bright]

Jeremie Pelletier wrote:
> Yeah, but its like calling for a failed experiment, there is no such 
> thing, only experiments. Think of these "worse" languages as experiments 
> on how not to design languages :)
> 
> Besides I was talking about better or worse in the scope of languages 
> which are actually used.

Many languages are "worse" because they solve problems that no longer 
exist, use techniques that have been obsoleted by newer ideas, were 
constrained by issues that have since gone away, etc.

This often doesn't stop zealots from using them, but their numbers 
shrink steadily as they die off and are not replenished :-)

It's sort of like when quantum mechanics theory rose in the physics 
world. Acceptance of it was with the new physicists, not the old guard, 
and QM didn't become dogma until the old guard died off.