[ajmoir]

I follow LtU not always able to comprehend the points made after all I program in a language worse than blub, I kid you not.

But nothing on there has ever come across as radical more of an evolution and sometimes it's just plain ego stroking.

As for Haskell, it's in danger of losing it's chance for wide spread acceptance. The further they take it away from being a good language for multi-processor machines the further away it is from being useful.

With the death of Von Neumann in sight, at last, Haskell is galloping away from it's biggest selling point to the average pgmr. I'm starting to think Erlang might become a mainstream language instead of Haskell. Would sort of prove the need for a language to have a single designer.

The sort of things I'd hoped to see in research are :- Genetic design of machines with 1000+ simple cpus with multi level communication and storage. Proof that the brain works on a quantum level. Cyc tied into machine learning so that it auto updates it's rules. Rules for understanding complexity from simple components.

Basically, I want to see the big problems that are just within grasp tackled.