Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
> Apparently Miranda was released 1985, making it "only" 5 years older
> than Haskell. So even Miranda is "only" 25 years old.

still, older than all of those, born in the 90's from C and Unix ideas mostly.

> To me, 25 years sounds like a hell of a long time in computing terms.
> But what do I know?

It is in terms of processing power, but not in how people tap that processing
power.  Things evolve a lot slower in the software side, thanks to the same old
ideas that drag around...

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