On 16 February 2011 12:52, Manokaran K <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Arun Venkataswamy <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > > Not all the time, you can decide based on the logic of numbers. > Statistics > > like that show what the "majority" of people are using. Times change. > Also, > > not everybody learns a language for their careers! I want to learn Erlang > > and Haskell very well kowing that I probably will never use it ever in my > > professional life... > > > > > CouchDB, which is gaining in popularity by the day, is written in erlang. > Though most 'views' in it are written in javascript, writing it in erlang > (its native tongue!) is supposed to improve performance by an order of > magnitude. So, who knows ... we all might be coding in erlang in a year or > so :-) > > regds, > mano > > -- > Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. >
Well, my version of Pablo Picasso's quote would be thus: Computers are useless. They can only give you answers to the most trivial questions. All non-trivial questions are undecidable. Vinod. > -- Pablo Picasso > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
