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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