[E-Lang] When We Do Joule (was: down with `define')

[Marc Stiegler]

> Marc Stiegler writes:
> >promise we'll fix it when we do Joule.
>
> (Rant warning.)
>
> That attitude disturbs me. Not that Joule isn't a fine language in many
> ways (I wouldn't have worked at EC for two years if I hadn't bought into
> some of its concepts), but I find it hard to believe that the right next
> step from E is necessarily something that already exists, and that anyone
> could know for sure what it actually would be.

You are of course correct. I was mostly joking when I wrote the above
passage (trying to put something lighter weight into what I consider a
life-and-death discussion :-), but the part of me that was joking deserved
to be reminded :-)

--marcs