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> Since the dawn of computing our industry has been engaged on a never ending quest to build the perfect language. ...unfortunately. I see PLs as mere material
by wellpast 10y ago
> Since the dawn of computing our industry has been engaged on a never ending quest to build the perfect language.
...unfortunately. I see PLs as mere material - sure, you can improve on them but at far more important is how we architect our systems (the PL-independent ways we create and organize our systems into interfaces and components) is where I see the software practitioners of today flailing - and no PL is going to save us there.
We need to have a better way to analyze systems on these architectural measures and a better way to train people to build better architectures, not more PLs.
- stcredzero 10y agounfortunately. I see PLs as mere material That's only part of their point. It's as if we were in the building industry, and we needed new tooling for each specific material. When I'm at a hackspace, the same chop saw will let me cut wood, delrin rod stock, steel linear rails, and aluminum extrusion. The same drill press and bits will operate just fine on most of the above as well. What we have in the programming world is a situation where I'd need a different toolset for every material I'd listed above.