Name: Anonymous 2015-12-25 18:40
https://twitter.com/leonidasfromxiv/status/589766936420085760
https://twitter.com/rob_rix/status/678571907227119617
It's even more incredible just how much ML got wrong, way back in 1980.
There was no pattern matching. Instead you had to check for nil and take the head and tail like Lisp. References weren't first-class. Exceptions were done wrong. There was no module system.
One of these ``MeLanin scholars'' had the arrogance to say that Luca Cardelli had no knowledge of ML when he worked on Modula-3. Cardelli was one of the people who worked on the pattern matching and the module system in ML in the first place!
Everything that they say is an ML advantage existed in other languages in 1980. The ML community is like some of those African tribes. Missionaries teach them something and leave for a few years. When they return, they tribe tells the missionaries it was the other way around.
Like knowlege learned from missionaries and passed down orally by an African tribe, the ML rip-offs are not only more recently absorbed into their culture, but distorted and inferior to the original sources of knowledge.
Every time someone excuses C for being 60ies tech: C debuted in 1972. ML solves many issues and debuted one year later (!).
https://twitter.com/rob_rix/status/678571907227119617
It's pretty incredible just how much ML got right, way back in 1973.
It's even more incredible just how much ML got wrong, way back in 1980.
There was no pattern matching. Instead you had to check for nil and take the head and tail like Lisp. References weren't first-class. Exceptions were done wrong. There was no module system.
One of these ``MeLanin scholars'' had the arrogance to say that Luca Cardelli had no knowledge of ML when he worked on Modula-3. Cardelli was one of the people who worked on the pattern matching and the module system in ML in the first place!
Everything that they say is an ML advantage existed in other languages in 1980. The ML community is like some of those African tribes. Missionaries teach them something and leave for a few years. When they return, they tribe tells the missionaries it was the other way around.
Like knowlege learned from missionaries and passed down orally by an African tribe, the ML rip-offs are not only more recently absorbed into their culture, but distorted and inferior to the original sources of knowledge.