Re: [stack] Re: Joy noob checking in!

On Mon, 10 May 2010, William Tanksley, Jr wrote:

> Duke Normandin <[email protected]> wrote:
> > So you're saying that Joy was indeed flawed right from the onset?
>
> I'm a Hobbesian when it comes to programming languages... Or maybe a
> Calvinist. They're ALL flawed. Now and forever. Fixing any problem you
> find is a good idea, and there will always be more flaws to fix.
>
> Joy is an experiment, made by an expert in logical programming who
> didn't really have a lot of experience with the classical stack
> languages, and kept roughly the same after the initial release. It was
> genius (if I may say so), and very useful for teaching, but didn't
> build on experience and incorporated only a few changes.

I appreciate your candor! Thanks..
-- 
duke