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

[Bill Page]

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.

I think that if Axiom is going to survive another 30 years, then we
very badly need to get closer to this threshold.

Regards,
Bill Page.