On Mon, 16 May 2005 01:13:03 +0900, Joel Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I'm quite sure Paul Graham would very >> happily tell you all the logical reasons why the end result would >> eventually be a dialect of LISP. ;-) > >And perl is a dialect of LISP, isn't it? > >:-/ > I would bet said self proclaimed "expert" would say the current perl is still lacking in some essential way but still insist that sooner or later it *MUST* become LISP to be any good and of course, the same is true for all programming languages. I'm really not sure what I find more disturbing; the fact someone is crazy enough to publicly proclaim such things or the fact there's a chance he may actually be right. >- >Joel Rees > (A FORTH dreamer, imprisoned in a Java world) You need to start using FIFTH, preferably filled with single malt. It works a lot better for dreaming than Java. JCR
