--HcAYCG3uE/tztfnV Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 05:46:05AM +0900, Martin DeMello wrote: >=20 > I think the same thing is happening with closures, but we haven't > gotten as far. It's still possible to promulgate a language like Java > that doesn't have practical closures. At the time I started writing, > Python didn't have closures at all and I heard Guido van Rossum say > that they weren't important. I think that's wrong, and that in another > thirty years people will laugh at anyone who tries to invent a > language without closures, just as they'll laugh now at anyone who > tries to invent a language without recursion. >=20 > -- Mark Jason Dominus, in an interview on "Higher Order Perl" >=20 > http://www.theperlreview.com/Interviews/mjd-hop-20050407.html I think thirty years is unrealistic. We're probably looking at something more like fifteen, at this point. Since it has been six years since that quote was made, by my estimation I think he overshot his guess by about a decade. I suppose I could be mistaken. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --HcAYCG3uE/tztfnV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk2TpGUACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKUcdgCeLYy+TtJuZRtoycN+h7St/ifd AUMAoJgXtz0cEN4zwhlT2ovid9sWKqLq =lcpv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --HcAYCG3uE/tztfnV-- On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 05:46:05AM +0900, Martin DeMello wrote: >=20 > I think the same thing is happening with closures, but we haven't > gotten as far. It's still possible to promulgate a language like Java > that doesn't have practical closures. At the time I started writing, > Python didn't have closures at all and I heard Guido van Rossum say > that they weren't important. I think that's wrong, and that in another > thirty years people will laugh at anyone who tries to invent a > language without closures, just as they'll laugh now at anyone who > tries to invent a language without recursion. >=20 > -- Mark Jason Dominus, in an interview on "Higher Order Perl" >=20 > http://www.theperlreview.com/Interviews/mjd-hop-20050407.html I think thirty years is unrealistic. We're probably looking at something more like fifteen, at this point. Since it has been six years since that quote was made, by my estimation I think he overshot his guess by about a decade. I suppose I could be mistaken. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk2TpGUACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKUcdgCeLYy+TtJuZRtoycN+h7St/ifd AUMAoJgXtz0cEN4zwhlT2ovid9sWKqLq =lcpv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----