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Sriram Krishnan desperately needs to look at Smalltalk. Here's where he says we need to go:
Today, the Longhorn PDC build uses up close to 500mb of memory. If you had told this to somebody in the 60's or 70's, they would have been stunned. One thing is for sure...the programming language of the future will let us forget about the hardware underneath.
Hmm. We were abstracted away from the hardware a long, long time ago over here. The Java guys are late entrants to that game, and MS, with their .NET environment, is just starting to get in. Trouble is, Java and .NET still have static types, forcing you to consider essentially irrelevant details. Oddly enough, he's talking about functional languages in his post; someone hand him a Lisp environment :)
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