[clug] [OT] Open Source model needed for Academic Publishing?

[steve jenkin]

Jason, thanks.
A good comment, hope you don't mind my sharing with the list.

For quite a while I thought Computing/I.T. was driven exclusively by
"Fads, Fashions and Enthusiasms".

Until I tried to list and define them... And failed :-(

Which of your post-1996 languages is *not* a fad??
We will have to wait another 10 years to find out :-(

The *only* difference between a Fad and Something Real/Useful is
eventual acceptance or 'market penetration'.

My thesis is:
 Everything new creates much enthusiasm and quickly becomes a Fad.
 Like evolution, competition in the wild creates a very few 'winners'
  while the rest either die completely or find sheltered nooks
  and limp along in a time-warp... [until something like Y2K!]

My fav. example:
 Plan 9 and the related Inferno.

Smaller, better, faster than almost everything else and significantly
pre-dating Linux.
>From the same exceptional team that brought us Unix etc.

But it never caught on...
Linux not only over-took them, but pretty much wiped them off the map...

Jason wrote on 1/09/11 4:17 PM:
> Actaully it seems not very much has happend since then. look at
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_programming_languages
> 
> Before
> 
> 1990 - Haskell
> 1991 - Python
> 1991 - Visual Basic
> 1993 - Ruby
> 1993 - Lua
> 1994 - CLOS (part of ANSI Common Lisp)
> 1995 - Java
> 1995 - Delphi (Object Pascal)
> 1995 - JavaScript
> 1995 - PHP
> 
> After
> 
> 1997 - Rebol
> 1999 - D
> 2001 - C#
> 2001 - Visual Basic .NET
> 2002 - F#
> 2003 - Groovy
> 2003 - Scala
> 2003 - Factor
> 2006 - Windows Power Shell
> 2007 - Clojure
> 2009 - Go
> 
> I find the first list far more used in everyday solutions then the
> second, is this a get off my lawn thing or have programming designers
> gotten boring?
> 
> I have used 7 out of 10 in the first list and 1 out of ten in the second
> so it could just be I have settled into my ways already.
> 
> 
> Jason


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