"As computers have grown more powerful, the new languages being developed have been moving steadily towards the Lisp programming model. A popular recipe for new programming languages in the past 20 years has been to take the C model of computing and add to it, piecemeal, parts from the Lisp model[.]"
Hey! That's what I think, too!
Around 2007 when I'd had quite a bit of exposure to both Python and then Ruby I'd started to think the same thing. Although I didn't have the foresight to say it in a public essay I would tell my friends "In five years Javascript will start to become a popular general (i.e. non-web only) programming language and Lisp in 20."
I now think think the big Lisp (or Scheme) event will happen even sooner--say in 5 to 7 years. (Meaning you will see the kinds of articles you see around Node today on HN about Lisp.)
Hey! That's what I think, too!
Around 2007 when I'd had quite a bit of exposure to both Python and then Ruby I'd started to think the same thing. Although I didn't have the foresight to say it in a public essay I would tell my friends "In five years Javascript will start to become a popular general (i.e. non-web only) programming language and Lisp in 20."
I now think think the big Lisp (or Scheme) event will happen even sooner--say in 5 to 7 years. (Meaning you will see the kinds of articles you see around Node today on HN about Lisp.)