Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: Conference

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Gabriel Dos Reis <address@hidden> writes:

| "Bill Page" <address@hidden> writes:
| 
| [...]
| 
| | My comment above was partly motivated by my "feeling old"
| | following a meeting with a mostly younger and naturally more
| | enthusiastic group. The contrast with the Axiom project is
| | striking. I guess there is just something not very sexy about
| | working on a software project that is older than the average
| | age of the developers. For example if you did a poll among
| | the Sage developers about the merits of Lisp versus Python you
| | can be quite sure where their sympathies would lie. Lisp is
| | legacy code. Period.
| 
| yes.  But not everyone agrees. 
| 
| On the other hand, I consider C++ "old" -- it started as "C with
| Classes" around 1979, with first release in 1989.
                                              ^^^^

oops, first relase is 1984.

-- Gaby