From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-07-24T12:09:38+09:00
Subject: Re: I'll have the duck!

Jake McArthur wrote:
> I much prefer its (less mature) derivative, Io. Everything is a 
> message to something else, and everything is a prototype. Very simple, 
> very powerful (even, dare I say, more powerful than Ruby, albeit a bit 
> less pretty).
>
> - Jake McArthur 
Actual, real programming languages with compilers or interpreters, a 
code base, applications and vibrant communities are for wimps! Give me 
an academic abstract language like the Pi-Calculus any day!

:)

Now that I think of it, Lisp was once an academic abstract language ... 
some bozo had to spoil it by writing an interpreter for the IBM 704.

Speaking of languages, isn't FORTRAN 50 years old this year?