Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| "Bill Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|
| [...]
|
| | My comment above was partly motivated by my "feeling old"
| | following a meeting with a mostly younger and naturally more
| | enthusiastic group. The contrast with the Axiom project is
| | striking. I guess there is just something not very sexy about
| | working on a software project that is older than the average
| | age of the developers. For example if you did a poll among
| | the Sage developers about the merits of Lisp versus Python you
| | can be quite sure where their sympathies would lie. Lisp is
| | legacy code. Period.
|
| yes. But not everyone agrees.
|
| On the other hand, I consider C++ "old" -- it started as "C with
| Classes" around 1979, with first release in 1989.
^^^^
oops, first relase is 1984.
-- Gaby
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