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From: sjc@netcom.com (Steven Correll)
Subject: Re: Reply to Ousterhout's reply (was Re: Ousterhout and Tcl ...)
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In article <hbaker-0904971253290001@10.0.2.1>,
Henry Baker <hbaker@netcom.com> wrote:
>In article <5ighvq$etn@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM>, ouster@tcl.eng.sun.com (John
>Ousterhout) wrote:
>> There really is something better about
>> each of these "ugly languages" that gives them an advantage over the "good"
>> languages;  I'll leave it up to you to figure out what it is.
>
>Strong hyping ??

You may be right. About ten years ago the AI folks (representing Lisp,
Prolog, neural networks, etc) were the acknowledged masters of hype,
but today they seem to have squandered their lead. I realized they were
fading a couple of years ago when I got a trial subscription to an AI
magazine along the lines of "C++ Report", and the feature story was
(I'm not making this up) a case study of an expert system written in Awk.
-- 
Steven Correll == PO Box 66625, Scotts Valley, CA 95067 == sjc@netcom.com
