From: Giuseppe Bilotta <bilotta78@...>
Date: 2002-08-22T01:52:41+09:00
Subject: Re: What New Language After Ruby?

William Djaja Tjokroaminata wrote:
> To Andrew Hunt and David Thomas:
> 
> I think in the book "The Pragmatic Programmer", one of the advices is to
> learn a new language at least once a year.  Probably for the year 2001 it
> was Ruby.  Now we are already in August 2002.  Is there any language
> candidate for this year?

I'll assing you Poplog. This will require you to learn POP-11, Prolog 
and Common Lisp. I'll give you 5 years for that, but as a final exam 
you'll have to write a complete, modular editor, as powerful as 
Emacs, based on POP-11 but with full Poplog capabilities (thus 
allowing use of Emacs-Lisp code). You may use VED (Poplog native 
editor) as a base, and you'll have to implement a VIM emulation layer 
on The Beast.

Sounds like good homework? :D

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

Axiom I of the Giuseppe Bilotta
theory of IT:
Anything is better than MS