From: Mike Stephens <rubfor@...>
Date: 2011-04-08T12:14:35+09:00
Subject: Re: functional paradigm taking over

Chad Perrin wrote
>
>  you found a 4GL very useful within its narrow domain of
> intended applicability

Chad , you have a rather prejudiced view of languages that don't look
like what you're used to.

For a few decades of my career, 4GLs paid the mortgage for me. I did a
North Sea Oil system in ADS/On-line. Focus (with a touch of Rexx) ran
the second biggest direct insurer in the UK for a while. It was the most
efficient and fast-moving corporate IT department I've ever worked in.
Focus provided ETL and data warehousing for the biggest card aquirer in
the UK - hundreds of million of transactions per month. It managed loans
of hundreds of millions to the biggest corporations in the World. What
have your precious 'proper' programming languages done?

I cut my teeth in IT before the advent of the Object-oriented Era.
Everyone was excited when OO arrived. However what I often see from
people taught OO from the cradle is a kind of religiousity, arrogance,
intolerance - this is is the only true path to righteousness; every
thing else should be burned. It's not really as black and white as that.
You need to live-and-let-live.

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