On Tue, 2011-12-20 at 06:45 -0600, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: [...] > I was also in the academia, doing PL research no less. The academic > interest was not of commercial nature for the most part - Java _is_ a > clean language great for doing research of both kinds: (a) research that > studies programs written in that language, (b) research that adds a > little feature to the language and proves its properties. The fact that > Java is underpowered has no import to that kind of work.
Indeed, academic research has a different set of constraints and must be handled differently to the commercial/industrial setting. Hence languages such as Clean are relevant in an academic setting where they have little or no penetration in "the real world". Professional publishing which is still going, just, is also very different from textbook publishing, which by all accounts has nigh on disappeared. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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