Notices by Alex McLean (yaxu@post.lurk.org), page 2

@rml I remember doing a performance with @nebogeo, I was using Haskell, he was using Scheme. A CS person in the audience came up afterwards and said he enjoyed it, but could barely understand how we were in the same room, let alone sharing a stage. I think he was only half joking. That's one aspect of it.

@rml I'm not really in that world, lucky to be able to move between languages and enjoy their different perspectives. But, I don't think it's healthy thinking really, pigeon-holing yourself and then fighting an imaginary war against other kinds of pigeons.

I guess as a researcher, I just see huge value in the idea of a 'research language'. Programming language development has been really stuck for decades so I'm all for learning research languages and trying out a new way of thinking.

It would be nice if we found ways in which the economy could support curiosity and creativity..

@rml interesting to see that there's a weird corner of software engineering where people believe programming languages are perpetually at war with one another