I grew up with the metric system but have now come to largely accept the imperial system as a more humane system.
Nassim Taleb actually talks about the benefits of it in his latest book Anti-Fragile as well.
The metric system is already used for anything important in the US and doesn't need to be further legislated. Look at any food item you buy in the supermarket it already has grams or ml on it.
While we never got it to production, we had a project based on the transputer in my first startup back in 1987 (a couple of naive high school kids in Denmark bootstrapping a high end workstation company).
Our plan was to use it to create a infinitely expandable workstation for both 3d and audio work. The design of the transputer was incredibly elegant, it was pretty much as easy to design with as a 6500 one chip computer and didn't require any extra support chips.
The Occam language was also pretty elegant for its time. It was essentially parallel Pascal. I don't remember it having any OO features, but the automatically parallelized looping constructs were unique for their time.
Nassim Taleb actually talks about the benefits of it in his latest book Anti-Fragile as well.
The metric system is already used for anything important in the US and doesn't need to be further legislated. Look at any food item you buy in the supermarket it already has grams or ml on it.
I wrote a piece a few years ago about this: http://stakeventures.com/articles/2007/08/28/in-defence-of-i...