On Sun 14 Nov 2010 at 16:29:10 PST Chad Perrin wrote:
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 02:39:32PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:

        About 2000, 2001 was when I shucked my "muuz" game/mind-machine
        effort.  It was over 10K line of C-ish code that I rehacked into
        C++.  Figured since C++ was "_the_ new language" that it was a
        good move.  Then I realized how you could spend a lifetime
        learning C++ I backed off and kept it simple.

Hardly new.  It hasn't been the Next Big Thing since the '80s.  Java was
the Next Big Thing in the '90s.  We don't exactly have a new Next Big
Thing for the '00s, from what I can see -- and maybe that's a good

I'd say the "Next Big Thing" in the '00s was Python ... or was it XML?

BTW, it's now the '10s.  ;-)
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