Re: The Fundamental Confusion of Xah

On 21 Lug, 15:35, Jon Harrop <j...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Vend wrote:
> > On 18 Lug, 22:34, Jon Harrop <j...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> The difference is productivity. Modern software obviously benefits
> >> enormously from the use of recently adopted technologies like garbage
> >> collection and closures.
>
> > Recently adopted?
>
> I was referring to the mainstream. Garbage collection and closures have
long
> since been available in esoteric languages like Lisp, as you say, but
they
> were not widely adopted until relatively recently (very recently for
> closures).

I don't think that Lisp can be considered an esoteric language. It was
quite mainstream in the academic world during the 70s.