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Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
From: Pupeno <pup...@pupeno.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 04:12:08 -0300
Local: Fri, Jun 24 2005 3:12 am
Subject: Re: ILC2005: McCarthy denounces Common Lisp, "Lisp", XML, and Rahul
Friedrich Dominicus wrote: What problem ? I man, anybody saw the problem (aside from a couple of cobol > Well exactly that is not the case. Why was there a year 2000 problem? prgrams) ? > Because nobody expected software to survice longer then a few Well, the money spent in solving the 2kY problem is known to be one of the > years. How many billions of dollars were spend on fixing those > "could-not-survive-so-long" software. biggest wastes on the IT market (has anyone evaluated upgradding-to-XP yet ?) > And every standard is just the snapshot in time. How many standards do personally I see lots of projects without a standard evolve faster than > exist for Fortran? How many for C? Common Lisp (Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP). I would be all on the side of dropping the standard (it doesn't help portability a lot because if you use multithreading or sockets or one of those things not standarized *yet*, you are screwed. But, I'm just a newbie. -- Pupeno <pup...@pupeno.com> (http://pupeno.com) Reading ? Science Fiction ? http://sfreaders.com.ar You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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