If Scheme is so good why MIT drops it?

[magicus]

On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:22:29 +0100, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com>
wrote:

> magicus wrote:
>> On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:11:02 +0100, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
>>>> On Monday 27 July 2009 16:49:25 Aahz wrote:
>>>>> In article <mailman.3765.1248685391.8015.python-list at python.org>,
>>>>>
>>>>> Hendrik van Rooyen  <hendrik at microcorp.co.za> wrote:
>>>>>> On Sunday 26 July 2009 21:26:46 David Robinow wrote:
>>>>>>>  I'm a mediocre programmer. Does this mean I should switch to PHP?
>>>>>> I have searched, but I can find nothing about this mediocre
>>>>>> language.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Could you tell us more?
>>>>>>
>>>>> :-P
>>>>>
>>>>> (For anyone who is confused by Hendrik's humor, he is saying that
>>>>> David was referring to a programming language named "mediocre".
>>>>> English grammar is confusing!)
>>>> This is true - I intended, when I started the post, to make a crack
>>>> about how he knew that he was mediocre - If there were some exam or
>>>> test that you have to pass or fail to be able to make the claim to
>>>> mediocrity. I was imagining a sort of devil's rating scale for
>>>> programmers, that could cause one to say things like:  "I am studying
>>>> hard so that I can get my mediocre certificate, and one day I hope to
>>>> reach hacker rank".
>>>>
>>>> And then the similarity to "I am a COBOL programmer" struck me, and I
>>>> abandoned the ratings.
>>>>
>>> If you were a "COBOL" programmer, would you want to shout about it?
>>> :-)
>> 
>> The last time I wrote anything in COBOL was sometime in the early 80s.
>> Somehow that makes me feel good, heh.
>> 
> COBOL: it feels good when you stop. :-)
> 

It certainly does!

> (I was actually referring to the convention of all capitals representing
> shouting.)

I rarely shout and I thought that to this day it was still referred to as 
COBOL. I am still glad that I never pursued a career in dealing w/ such a 
language.

ciao,
f

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"What you resist, persists."