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From: D Herring on 24 Mar 2010 01:36
Interesting article
http://lostgarden.com/2005/09/nintendos-genre-innovation-strategy.html

Then I had a random thought of the "CL eats its young" vein:
Is the programming language life cycle similar to the game genre life
cycle? Is this a universal pattern in all human endeavors?

- Daniel
From: fortunatus on 24 Mar 2010 09:09
On Mar 24, 1:36 am, D Herring <dherr...(a)at.tentpost.dot.com> wrote:
> Interesting articlehttp://lostgarden.com/2005/09/nintendos-genre-innovation-strategy.html
>
> Then I had a random thought of the "CL eats its young" vein:
> Is the programming language life cycle similar to the game genre life
> cycle?  Is this a universal pattern in all human endeavors?
>
> - Daniel

I think its a universal pattern which naturally happens but some
institutions try to fight.
From: D Herring on 31 Mar 2010 01:10
On 03/24/2010 09:09 AM, fortunatus wrote:
> On Mar 24, 1:36 am, D Herring<dherr...(a)at.tentpost.dot.com> wrote:
>> Interesting article http://lostgarden.com/2005/09/nintendos-genre-innovation-strategy.html
>>
>> Then I had a random thought of the "CL eats its young" vein:
>> Is the programming language life cycle similar to the game genre life
>> cycle? Is this a universal pattern in all human endeavors?
>
> I think its a universal pattern which naturally happens but some
> institutions try to fight.

Here's a related article on Tcl.

http://journal.dedasys.com/2010/03/30/where-tcl-and-tk-went-wrong

- Daniel
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