From: Jon Harrop <jon@...>
Date: 2007-01-04T13:50:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Fun languages (was Re: Status of Cardinal (was Re: Proposal to create a new mailing list))

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> In message "Re: Fun languages (was Re: Status of Cardinal (was Re:
> Proposal to create a new mailing list))"
>     on Thu, 4 Jan 2007 00:46:11 +0900, "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky"
>     <znmeb@cesmail.net> writes:
> 
> |Someone (Dave Thomas? Andy Hunt? DHH?) said that Ruby made programming
> |fun *again*. So the obvious question is, "What languages were fun before
> |there was Ruby?"
> 
> BASIC was fun for me, when I was in junior high.  The point is that as
> I grow up, the problem domain I am in charge become far more complex
> than BASIC can handle.  That's why I need Ruby.

Here's my list:

1. OCaml
2. Mathematica

F# is also fun but it is newer than Ruby.

-- 
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy
Objective CAML for Scientists
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists/index.html?usenet