python_padawan

"Well, all true Scotsmen like haggis."

Or, for those who cannot draw the correlation: "Well, all true Lispers like parentheses."

Never mind that pure functional programming is an ideal that even Lisp does not live up to. Think I'm throwing B.S. around? Try doing I/O in Lisp without side-effects.

Now that we've established that Lisp is not at the top of the blub-curve, maybe we can get on with: 1. Writing functional languages people actually use. 2. Advancing the state-of-the-art in programming languages from being mired in a single-threaded monolithic server past.

With respect to my second point, much progress has been made; but it is still underpinned by single-threaded programming language design. What we need is someone who truly groks multiprocessor, multi-threaded, heterogeneous run-time environments; and from that knowledge can write a language to take advantage of such an environment.

Congratulations, Perl 6 developers. You are beginning to catch up with Django. (See http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/tutorial03/ if you think I'm being sarcastic.)

Once upon a time, Perl was the de facto language for web development. Then there was a bit of falling out between the web-centric folks and the server-centric folks; resulting in PHP. Perl, as a language for web-development, never really recovered.

I find it kind of sad that it took over a decade and a half-hearted attempt at rewriting the language before the server-centric folks are even beginning to understand what the web-centric folks were talking about. :-/