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Subject: Re: Build language with weak typing, then add scaffolding later to
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On Thursday, June 4, 2015 at 11:23:51 AM UTC-6, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>=20
> It is because nothing interesting happened since 1995. We are living
> through the Dark Ages of computing...

I blame the popularity of C/C++ and *nix.
Perhaps the best things to come out of the FP domain is (a) a more widespre=
ad disdain for C's fast/loose typing, (b) the realization that global state=
 and side-effects can/should be avoided when possible, and (c) the realizat=
ion that C language-family syntax is not indicative of "a real programming =
language".