OT: OT posts [was Re: proliferation of computer languages]

2008-07-22 Thread Joshua Cranmer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: • many says i'm posting off topic posts. In recent years they start to say i'm posting tangentially relevant posts. That's not correct. In fact, there are huge number of blatantly off-topics posts by regulars that spawn off from threads, happens regularly. The topics va

Re: proliferation of computer languages

2008-07-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
over the past 5 years there are some negative remarks on me or my posts. I have almost never responded to any of them. Here i want to clarify a few things. • I seldomly write off-topic posts. For example, any argument about netiquette, i consider off-topic, including defense such as what i'm doi

Re: proliferation of computer languages

2008-07-22 Thread szr
Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2008-07-22, szr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> J?rgen Exner wrote: >>> Chris Rathman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I can't say that I see any particular point to the essay. >>> >>> You must be new here. There never is any particular point to >>> Xah Lee's rantings exc

Re: proliferation of computer languages

2008-07-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-07-22, szr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > J?rgen Exner wrote: >> Chris Rathman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I can't say that I see any particular point to the essay. >> >> You must be new here. There never is any particular point to >> Xah Lee's rantings except to cross-post borderline t

Re: proliferation of computer languages

2008-07-22 Thread cartercc
On Jul 18, 1:17 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Today, i took sometime to list some major or talked-about langs that > arose in recent years. You missed PowerShell and ActionScript. Languages are just tools. It may have escaped your notice, but it's a remarkable fact that no

Re: proliferation of computer languages

2008-07-22 Thread szr
Jürgen Exner wrote: > Chris Rathman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I can't say that I see any particular point to the essay. > > You must be new here. There never is any particular point to Xah > Lee's rantings except to cross-post borderline topics to borderline > relevant NGs and then lay back

Re: proliferation of computer languages

2008-07-22 Thread J�rgen Exner
Chris Rathman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I can't say that I see any particular point to the essay. You must be new here. There never is any particular point to Xah Lee's rantings except to cross-post borderline topics to borderline relevant NGs and then lay back and enjoy the ensuing slaughter.

Re: proliferation of computer languages

2008-07-22 Thread Fredrik Lundh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a proliferation of computer languages today like never before. "... today ... 1,700 special programming languages used to 'communicate' in over 700 application areas." -- Computer Software Issues, an American Mathematical Association P

Re: proliferation of computer languages

2008-07-21 Thread Chris Rathman
I can't say that I see any particular point to the essay. But I did want to point out that Oz should not be considered part of the ML family. Aside from not being statically typed - a very central tenet to ML, Oz is much more part of the Logic family of languages (Mercury, Prolog, etc...). On Ju

proliferation of computer languages

2008-07-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Today, i took sometime to list some major or talked-about langs that arose in recent years. Here's the result: http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/new_langs.html Plain text version follows. - There is a proliferation of computer languages today like