Not a new drug on the club scene or a state of mind devoutly to be wished for. No, this is an obscure computer language, one of thousands of candidates for inclusion in a proposed museum of software languages.
Why would anyone bother? Because the history of computer languages is the history of our attempts to deal with mechanical intelligence. And if we don’t collect them now, they’ll crumble away like broken clay tablets from Babylon. We’ll end up with only indecipherable fragments from which to reconstruct our past.
Grady Booch, the man behind the idea and a writer of…
