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On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:54:30 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> 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
You'll note that I said "rarely", not "never". :-P
Jim
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