From: Peter Hickman <peter@...>
Date: 2005-04-28T17:31:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Re ANN: A new scripting language Tao 0.9.0 beta released!

Earl Grieda wrote:

>Yes, my personal opinion is we need less languages, not more.  This industry
>has developed a Tower of Babel and it is hindering us in productivity.
>  
>
But then again I'm not too happy with the 'One Ring' approach to
language use. "I do everything in X, X is the only language you will
ever need" That can be a real hindrance to productivity. Besides it is
nice to have small languages that people can play around with and
rummage in the guts of. People learnt a lot from Minix despite it being
a toy OS (all flames to /dev/null) and a little language like Tao could
be a nice for people looking into language design.

Let a thousand languages bloom and remember that we could still be using
COBOL and JCL.