Re: [Axiom-developer] Simon Peyton-Jones video on the "threshold of immortality" (and Haskell)

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

"Bill Page" <address@hidden> writes:

| Talk posted by Bruce Stewart:
| 
| http://beautifulcode.oreillynet.com/2007/08/oscon_video_of_simon_peyton_jo.php
| 
| Slides:
| 
| http://conferences.oreillynet.com/presentations/os2007/os_peytonjones.pdf
| 
| I think this energetic talk is important at a number of levels,
| independently of the specific subject of Haskell programming. Simon
| makes a number of important side comments about the "slow death" and
| other characteristics of successful "research languages" which seem to
| apply in a positive sense to Boot, Spad and Aldor (See: slide 5)
| versus the "threshold of immortality" for languages like Fortran and
| Python.


That cuts his presentation at HOPL III last June in San Diego.

As ever, it is alsways an immense pleasure to attent or see a talk by 
SPJ.

I wish we had more Simons working on Axiom...

-- Gaby