Given that it's impossible to see into the future, what factors related to Clojure, Scala or Haskell are likely to determine whether one of them catches on?
Are there cultural or economic issues that could give one of these languages an advantage over the others?
Or are none of these languages likely to gain traction because of their conceptual complexity?
Haskell or Ruby will sweep evryone in the world. Chances are more for Ruby to be successful since Haskell is complex and difficult to learn.
Ruby 2.x will become father of 'Scala and Clojure'. It will have new version with high speed, GIL removed and built-in modules for Parallel processing, functional programing, macros.
Thinking further, more libraries are to be built in ruby for various tasks. This will be done once the version 2.X will come with all the above mentioned feechurs.
I believe Matz and Antonio !!!!!
C++, Java, .NET, Python, Scala will be seen in musuems. XXXXX
C, Perl and PHP will still live for small apps/tasks.
MySQL, Oracle, SQLServer will also be seen in 'db section' of museum. XXXXX
SQlite, PostgreSQL will be still alive outside.
Cheers,
Ur man
