Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> >   I don't see it that language development has been stuck with OOP for 30
> > years.

> I haven't seen a new "wow, this is a great improvement" sort of thing 
> happen, tho.

  Was OOP a "wow, this is a great improvement" at the time it was introduced,
or was it a gradual shift, which we are now compressing into one big event
when looking back, 30 years after?

> >   But otherwise I have seen a trend in programming design to move a bit
> > more away from pure OOP and more towards dynamic programming. 

> What do *you* mean by the term "dynamic programming"? I know what I'd mean 
> by it, but I don't know if your background would make it mean the same thing 
> as mine does.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_programming_language

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                                                          - Warp

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