Precedence (was: "One Bullet is never enough" Paper)

[Cameron Laird]

In article <3CE9BC7F.A3565ADE at tundraware.com>,
Tim Daneliuk  <tundra at tundraware.com> wrote:
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>1A) Even pretty compelling new language implementations cannot really
>    guarantee lock.  For its time, at least in commercial practice, 
>    Visual Basic was a terrific innovation, particularly from the
>    perspective of programmer productivity.  (Bear in mind that this
>    is a *relative* judgement - VB was a huge step up from the GUI
>    coding environments which it replaced.)  But as compelling as the
>    IT organizations found VB, it did not, on the whole, prevent them
>    from using other language technologies, not did it materially
>    prevent the adoption of "new" languages like perl or TCL.  Similarly,
>    Python itself is making great inroads into "pure Microsoft" shops.
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Small technical clarification, for those who don't know the field
as well as Tim:
  1987:  Perl born.
  spring 1988:  first version of Tcl applied.
  February 1991:  Guido first publicly releases Python.
  May 1991:  Visual Basic 1.0 released.
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