That was a great thread Ed :) Quoting Ed O'Connor <[email protected]>:
> Interesting programming language discussion being broadcast on the > Delicio.us radar. REBOL is held out as a contrast to Google's "Go" languag= e > (and others). > A few excerpts: > > I have been lately looking at Scala and yesterday spent some time > looking at Pike / Thompson / Google et. al.'s "Go" language for > "systems programming." And Guido halts Python syntactic evolution > before the job is done... > > And it fills me with despair and anger. > > Language designers in general: You are IN THE WAY. Go here: > > http://www.rebol.com/oneliners.html > > ...then do us all a favor and don't resist the urge to fall on that > wakizashi when your shame overcomes you. > > .... > > I think Carl Sassenrath may be the only person on the planet working > in this area that accurately perceives the "pain" involved in general, > everyday, practical programming and is *actually* trying to address > it. ... > > > [Further down in the msg thread] > > > Third point: write a program that, when your phone is near your > laptop at work, checks your security system at the house, determines > via various heuristics whether there's anyone else in the family home, > locks the doors remotely if they aren't and arms the alarm, and sends > you a message (determined by where you're most active --- SMS if > computer is idle, IM if not idle, copies e-mail in either case) > indicated that it detected that the last person out (also determined > heuristically by spanning machines to build a complex "context) forgot > to lock the door. Also, if this person was your teenage son, sends > him a text indicating that he's grounded, gets on his cell provider > web page and "locks down" his account to strictly-family-and-emergency > use, and automatically logs into the bank and changes the PIN number > on his ATM card. (Where all does this program run? How does it > orchestrate all this activity? Etc.) > > That *SHOULD* be simple. It should be TRIVIAL! > > > These quotes are cherry-picked, of course. The entire thread is =20 > worth reading: > > *Programming languages, operating systems, despair and anger* > > http://www.xent.com/pipermail/fork/Week-of-Mon-20091109/054578.html > > Regards, > > Ed > > > -- > To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to > lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject. > > -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.
