• From: Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@i...>
• To: "'Lars Marius Garshol'" <larsga@g...>, xml-dev@x...
• Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 10:22:12 +0100

> I think this may very well be true.  As Richard Gabriel observed, it
> seems that programmers tend to favour languages that do not require
> abstractions.  

I think programmers favour languages that use the abstractions they have
become familiar with; and for most of them, that abstraction is the von
Neumann machine.

Mike Kay

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