> > On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 08:56:02PM +0100, Matěj Cepl wrote: > On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 23:12:31 +0000 > "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Just curious: better programming environments … such us? > Anything in the ML family of course. So, in looking it up, those languages have been around for almost 50 years, and they haven't "caught on". Why? Programmers are usually quick to pick up something which is better. What is it about ML family languages that have caused them to be passed over? I tried programming in lisp a long time ago, and found it was not a good fit for the way I think about programming solutions because of its functional nature. Is that the reason for most people? To put it another way, if people don't cut their teeth on declarative languages, if their first exposure to programming is via a functional language, do they then embrace functional programming? Or is it like right and left handedness, inherent in people, with the majority preferring declarative? _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
