Re: A Destructive Myth

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From: Roland Karlsson
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 09:00

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Hello Richard,

It is a sad fact that most decisions concerning what techniques and
machines to use are based on myths.  This is true in many areas: cars,
measuring instruments, computers, editors, programming languages, news
readers, ...  You name it.  Some people cannot accept anything that is
not called object oriented, some laugh at FORTRAN, and some just love
smalltalk.  I knew a guy who never wrote a program in another language
than APL.  None of those opinions are based on facts.  But people use
them for their decisions nevertheless.  It is very difficult to kill
myths using facts.  If you really want people to use Prolog, then you
must create some positive myths.  Then it is going to be used
"everywhere".  Even where it is not the most adequate tool.



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