On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 06:40:17AM EST, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 02:50:11 -0500, Chris Jones wrote:
> > Always struck me as odd that a country like Japan for instance, with > > all its achievements in the industrial realm, never came up with one > > single major piece of software. > I think you are badly misinformed. > > The most widespread operating system in the world is not Windows. It's > something you've probably never heard of, from Japan, called TRON. > > http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/31855.html > http://web-japan.org/trends/science/sci030522.html > > Japan had an ambitious, but sadly failed, "Fifth Generation Computing" > project: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_generation_computer > http://vanemden.wordpress.com/2010/08/21/who-killed-prolog/ > > They did good work, but unfortunately were ahead of their time and the > project ended in failure. > > Japan virtually *owns* the video game market. Yes, yes, Americans publish > a few high-profile first-person shooters. For every one of them, there's > about a thousand Japanese games that never leave the country. > > There's no shortages of programming languages which have come out of > Japan: > > http://hopl.murdoch.edu.au/findlanguages.prx?id=jp&which=ByCountry > http://no-sword.jp/blog/2006/12/programming-without-ascii.html > > The one you're most likely to have used or at least know of is Ruby. Food for thought.. Thanks much for the links..! cj -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
