March 10, 2012
6:56 a.m.
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 12:02 AM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua@gmail.com> wrote:
According to this guy, we're using 3rd most powful programming language (or, well one of 4.. to not insult anyone ;).
http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html
So, we're not that bad, eh? :)
A real scientific analysis ;) proves that Smalltalk is far more powerful than Lisp (but sadly less powerful than Haskell) : http://magaloma.blogspot.com/2010/11/revenge-of-smalltalk.html Laurent
A very good explanation to 'pointy-haired' why 'mainstream' language are not best choice.. as well as good illustration that in order to compete and stay popular, all mainstream languages will slowly converge to lisp.
-- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.