The Nature of Paradim Shift :)))

Jan 22, 2006 11:59

If history repeats, the nature of the paradigm shift would have the following properties:
  • It will be coded by one, two, or three geeks who are fed up
  • It will be all over the news for two days before disappearing again
  • It will have an open source tool
  • It would be bootstrapped off the old paradigm
  • It will be instantly dismissed by scores of developers
  • It will be instantly dismissed by scores of "developers", who will write books about why it's not important
  • Once it was understood by a few, a slew of companies will arise claiming to have a tool that implements it
  • Microsoft will claim to have one ready in four months, called Visual NewParadigm.NET
  • Years later some non-original tools will actually implement it.
  • It's benefits may be relative to the old paradigm (ala procedural vs. OOP), not necessarily superior
  • Once it is understood, something beyond it will arise iteratively, for a while they will be called the same thing, until they become distinct.
  • It's not going to be programming language as we know it. Maybe some combination of architectural, evolutionary, and aspect techniques
  • Lisp weenies will claim prior art
  • The Perl community will claim it's been in the Perl Language all along, you just have to say "#(&&->$\/\//@mumble->frabitz;;" to accomplish it.
  • Even after it's established by many as the Next Big Thing, people will have arguments as to what it is. (cf Nobody Agrees What Is OO)
  • It won't be where the architects/scientists were looking
  • Xerox Parc probably threw it out as unusuable, years ago.


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