On Fri, 9 Sep 2011, Andy Farnell wrote:
Standard problems also make good, familiar points of comparison.
This allows to make comparisons that completely miss the reasons why new languages are still being created.
Sadly it's the fringe cases, and the esoterica that is often most interesting.
Writing big programmes, in itself, is not fringe nor esoteric. And nowadays, in multitasking operating systems, if you don't happen to be talking to other computers over a network, you could instead be talking to other programmes on the same computer. In 2011, that's not fringe nor esoteric.
Going out of Programming 101 doesn't get you automatically in the odd and weird stuff. I don't know why you talk about going from an extreme to another.
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