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04/11/2003 Entry: "The Hundred-Year Language"

Oh my, In The Hundred-Year Language Phil Grahm knocks SUV's before he knocks functional languages (for not supporting 'true macros'), and, wonder of wonders, even before mentioning the "L" word:

Some kinds of waste really are disgusting. SUVs, for example, would arguably be gross even if they ran on a fuel which would never run out and generated no pollution. SUVs are gross because they're the solution to a gross problem. (How to make minivans look more masculine.) But not all waste is bad. Now that we have the infrastructure to support it, counting the minutes of your long-distance calls starts to seem niggling. If you have the resources, it's more elegant to think of all phone calls as one kind of thing, no matter where the other person is.

BTW, Everyone will obviously slinging Haskell '02099 in a hundred years ! Haskell rocks.