On Sunday, August 7, 2016 at 1:25:43 AM UTC+5:30, Marco Sulla wrote: > On 6 August 2016 at 02:13, Chris Angelico wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Marco Sulla wrote: > >> I want to clarify that when I say "different from the other > >> languages", I mean "different from the most used languages", that in > >> my mind are C/C++, C#, Java, PHP and Javascript, mainly. > >> > > > > Ah, well, that's because those are all one family of languages. If > > instead you were familiar with four LISPy languages, you'd have a > > completely different set of expectations. > > Well, they are the most used languages. I think about the 80% of > programmers knows at least one of that languages.
True > It's more simple to learn a new language if it's similar to the others. Not true At a specific level (of programming languages) : http://blog.languager.org/2015/06/functional-programming-moving-target.html talks of functional programming taking about 50 years to get mainstream More generally: http://blog.languager.org/2016/01/how-long.html is a collection of examples showing how humans en masse can persist in error for hundreds, sometimes thousands, of years -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
