It's analagous to pets - you raise them (sometimes) from bottle-feeding and they live to old age - and they die long before you are ready. Sure, there are the occasional turtles and parrots that outlive their owners - COBOL has long outlived Grace Hopper - but most computer languages come and go within their authors and certainly users professional lifetimes. Sometimes you babysit somebody else's pet while they're on vacation or something - the other thread on the cube comic points this out - only a few of us have ever worked with SNOBOL (and we probably didn't like it that much). I started with Algol, moved on to COBOL, assembled various flavours, did some Fortran (various flavours), then CMS II (a regression), C, C++, Java (swore at Grady), and then a succession of scripting languages (none of which have stuck). My strangest language experience was A Programming Language (APL) - oh the damage one can do in almost no code.
Ray Parks Consilient Heuristician/IDART Old-Timer V: 505-844-4024 M: 505-238-9359 P: 505-951-6084 NIPR: rcpa...@sandia.gov SIPR: rcpar...@sandia.doe.sgov.gov (send NIPR reminder) JWICS: dopa...@doe.ic.gov (send NIPR reminder) On Jul 11, 2015, at 8:41 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > This is sorta sad: > https://github.com/NetLogo/NetLogo/wiki/Applets > Applets: They're dead Jim. > > Sad mainly from a history standpoint: Java built a really fascinating cross > platform, VM based, language & libraries. > > JS is now the current winner. But then, there's Web Assembly which will > provide a path for all languages to replace JS in the browser and in Node.js. > > Sigh. > > -- Owen > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
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