Subject: Re: Lisp syntax for Haskell? From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> Date: 1999/07/18 Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional,comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3141287011481542@naggum.no> * hannah@schlund.de (Hannah Schroeter) | Who knows what will be the language of choice in 5 years? the choice of whom? I predict that "one world -- one X" will have been obliterated by then, because Microsoft is not a viable force in 5 years' time, and interesting values of X such as "browser", "language", and "GUI" will go first. after people discover that switching from custom systems to Microsoft to escape Y2K was a leap from the frying pan into the fire, and the lawsuits begin to take down software companies when Congress stops protecting them after seeing the effect of doing so, I also predict that certain design paradigms will suffer greatly. since Common Lisp will go through this process completely unscathed, anyone who chooses to go with a very stable language that has demonsted none of the stupid flaws that cost the world a trillion dollars, or who chooses to market such a language on such premises, will succeed in gigcantic ways -- presuming that this is something they want and are prepared to handle. so, suppose managers "understand" that Y2K is a language-related problem, and blame whatever popular languages caused serious problems, the way they blamed Lisp when the AI winter set in -- how far will the effect go? [sorry for the delay in responding, I have had a rare vacation.] #:Erik -- @1999-07-22T00:37:33Z -- pi billion seconds since the turn of the century