Re: [Hampshire] UK digital skills report

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Author: Brad Macpherson
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] UK digital skills report

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G'day Gordon,

On 23 Feb 2015, at 12:16, Gordon Scott wrote:

> Then again, it also seems to me that we've not really progressed very
> far with tools. Lisp(58!), Prolog(72), Smalltalk(80), perl(87), tcl(88),
> Python(89+), Java(91), Ruby(99).


I can't speak for the other languages in your list but Perl has continued to progress since 1987 with higher-order Perl (functional programming) and Moose (object-oriented Perl done well) being 2 major changes to the way applications are built on Perl 5. Just look at the plethora of application frameworks and reinvented wheels on CPAN; actually that can be a pain in the backside sometimes, maybe we need an AI to help sort the wheat from the chaff :-)

> Actually that's a bit depressing.


I dunno, I think it's a tribute to the languages' designers and users that they've lasted so well.

Cheers

Brad
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