Jim Henderson wrote:

> Welcome to the true world of technology.  Innovation rarely happens, most 
> of the things hailed as innovation tend to be reimplementations of older 
> ideas on faster hardware.
> 
> Thin client or fat client?  Look at the history, and you'll see that 
> we've just gone in circles.

Functional programming? That'd be based on the lambda calculus then, 
which predates computer hardware just like the Turing machine that most 
current programming languages are based on. The FP guys are getting all 
excited because FP makes it inherantly easiER to write multithreaded 
code, but... FP languages have been around for decades, and never gone 
anywhere. (Hell, when Prolog was invented, people thought that HAL was 
just around the corner!)

Oh, and self-programming computers? Unlikely ever to happen. :-P

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