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The Future of Programming Languages: Economics (dedasys.com)
14 points by fogus on Nov 11, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



"The costs of switching from established languages will continue to be high" - this is why the recent set of new JVM and CLR languages are so wonderful. If I'm experienced with one CLR-based language, I can experiment with another one without leaving behind my nice familiar libraries and tools.

I started learning F# and Haskell around the same time, and although I still prefer Haskell from a pure language point of view, I'm far more productive on F#.


Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1890758 although no comments there.


sounds like a pretty good argument for lisp ;)




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