Re: bytecode unification for scripting languages

[Reini Urban <rurban@x-ray.at>]

Jeffrey Stephens schrieb:
> This comment is very interesting.  Years ago I remember reading a book by Ayn
> Rand titled 'Atlas Shrugged'.  The theme of this work is that there are
> a relatively few key innovators/producers/movers-and-shakers in the world in
> every discipline, and if these individuals were somehow removed things would
> fall apart.  

This must be a science fiction book: "removing people" :)

> This is precisely what happens in the book.  The hero, John Galt,
> convinces a number of these people to "retire" early, and the machinery of
> production grinds to a halt.  It makes one wonder what would happen to Scheme
> or other projects if something similar happened.  Would Scheme wither on the
> vine?  Just a thought.

what happened to football (somewhere known as "soccer") when manchester 
united's plane crashed in the 60'ies and all died. 
it did hurt but football is still alive.
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Reini Urban
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