From: Jos Backus <jos@...>
Date: 2007-10-05T12:09:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Recent Criticism about Ruby (Scalability, etc.)

On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 11:29:48AM +0900, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> There are some languages that can *only* be used by "very smart people". 
> APL comes to mind, and I suspect there are those who could make the same 
> case for Forth, Haskell and Prolog. For "most of us", languages like 
> Python, Perl, PHP, Ruby and Lua are great *because* they're easy to learn 
> even if you're not a "very smart person".

(OT) My first full-time IT job back when I was 24 or so was to write assembly
line startup personnel planning software using VS APL 4.0 on VM/CMS (and using
GDDM for graphics). Thanks for making me feel good about that. :-)

-- 
Jos Backus
jos at catnook.com