Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
> > how slow paradigms change and new languages with radically new
> > ideas flourish (motivated by hardware changes anyway)...
>
> You know, like how Erlang and Haskell and J have completely replaced C, C++,
> FORTRAN, and COBOL.  And how we got rid of structured statements and OOP and
> replaced them with better stuff just a decade or so after they were invented.

in other words, you agree with me that change in the software world goes on
friggin' slowly, right?

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