Programming has really suffered from the advent of "programming languages" as a field.
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@patrickc I think once the level of effort of moving the tools ecosystem becomes very large, ground-up rethinking becomes almost impossible. -
@jaykreps Yeah, I'm not sure what to do about this. Alan Kay talks about how Smalltalk progress stopped once it escaped PARC. - 10 more replies
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@patrickc Dude, someone is wrong on the Internet! And this morning I think it's you. -
@peterseibel Fine, Fortress has Unicode. But which part do you disagree with? - 4 more replies
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@patrickc PL isn't about arranging ASCII characters any more than UI design is about arranging buttons. -
@davidad I think that's a slightly diff point. Yes, astronomy isn't about telescopes, but PL today restricts itself to a narrow question. - 2 more replies
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@patrickc I would say the opposite is true for .NET developers. Plenty of new language features all the time that improve the experience. - End of conversation
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@patrickc and images are just arrangements of numbers -
@migueldeicaza Xamarin is one of the bright spots!
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