Re^4: The first lambda language to go mainstream ?
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 11, 2010 at 19:35 UTC
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Re^4: The first lambda language to go mainstream ?
by CountZero (Bishop) on Aug 11, 2010 at 14:55 UTC
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Perlscript, VBscript, TCL, ...
CountZero A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James
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perlscript is NOT mainstream, neither is VBscript (VB might be), don't know about TCL
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Sorry, I wasn't clear: I was answering the assertion "JS got a lot more attention because you simply can't use any other language to script sites.", which is clearly incorrect.
CountZero A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James
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sorry, but making sites only for IE won't do it anymore.
Never heard of using TCL before, but as far as I searched it's only usable through a plugin, no good either.
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Re^4: The first lambda language to go mainstream ?
by LanX (Saint) on Aug 11, 2010 at 19:08 UTC
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It all depends on what 'mainstream' means.
JS got a lot more attention because you simply can't use any other language to script sites.
You are restricting mainstream to webclients, sites are quite often realized with Perl! :)
IMHO mainstream means widely known and used. Dylan or Factor are't mainstream.
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Re^4: The first lambda language to go mainstream ?
by rowdog (Curate) on Aug 12, 2010 at 19:07 UTC
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It all depends on what 'mainstream' means.
Indeed, and I find any definition of 'mainstream' that doesn't include Perl to be full of crap.
For most of the 90's, CGI was practically synonymous with Perl. Sure, you could write CGI in C, C++, shell, or TCL, but almost nobody did. But hey, I'm sure the server side didn't count as 'mainstream'.
Okay, so you could argue that was the past and Perl's dead. I still disagree. The vast majority of Linux distros include Perl in their baseline installation. You can talk about the lack of Linux on the desktop but you'd be a fool to discard the massive uptake of Linux (and thus Perl) in the server space.
Perl comes as part OSX too. I suppose that means Apple isn't 'mainstream' either.
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