[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/19/2018 2:18 PM, gérard Calliet wrote:
> Le 18/12/2018 à 02:00, Arne Vajhøj a écrit :
>> On 12/17/2018 11:40 AM, gérard Calliet wrote:
>>>> On 12/17/2018 6:46 AM, johnson.eric at gmail.com wrote:
>>>>> For example, have you learned a new programming language? There are
>>>>> so many to pick from. Consider rust, ruby, perl, python, go, swift,
>>>>> haskell, OCaml, Objective C, or a fresh look at C++-17. I'm sure 
>>>>> there are
>>>>> others too. 
>>> You didn't mention xslt programming and scala, the 2 I do like and 
>>> used... on VMS.
>>
>> Funny - I have always suspected that Scala appealed to the same
>> people as Ada95 did/do.
>>
>> :-)
>>
>> Not completely wrong.

> A friend of mine just invited me to attend to the inaugural conference 
> on College de France about Computer science, introduction from the 
> Curry-Howard isomorphism. My snoberry.

There are two schools of thought on programming languages.

There are those that prioritize the power of the language - it
should be possible to express even very complex logic in a
short and concise way.

And there are those that prioritize simplicity of the
language - it should be possible for anybody with an
IQ over 90 to read and understand the code.

Ada95 and Scala definitely seems to be designed
by people in the first category.

Arne