Damn man. Have you ever even used the languages you're trashing? Prolog and Lisp are two of the greatest languages even designed. They're extremely successful (far more than Perl). Just because they're not the best languages for writing your little cgi formmail scripts doesn't mean they're bad languages.

C++ is a total mess, and I don't know what you think a "hacker" is, but it certainly isn't any of the people who designed Java. Look at Joy, he thinks we should stop all technical innovation because we're going to end up killing ourselves. Is that a hacker mentality? I think not.

I'll gladly elaborate on my position once you have the slightest clue what you're talking about. Until then, adios.

In reply to Re: Re: "There are some stunningly novel ideas in Perl" -- Paul Graham by Anonymous Monk
in thread "There are some stunningly novel ideas in Perl" -- Paul Graham by grinder

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