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While I don't really like this idea (in 1985 it may have changed the course of programming but in 2017 with advanced IDEs it smells like a solution looking for

by throwaway2016a 9y ago

While I don't really like this idea (in 1985 it may have changed the course of programming but in 2017 with advanced IDEs it smells like a solution looking for a problem) it has one interesting benefit... If two languages have similar grammars and APIs you could potentially allow the programmer to choose the language they want and each programmer can work in their own language. Even one of those graphical block-based languages.

cormacrelf 9y ago
In the entire history of languages, this would probably only work for prehistoric-C# and Visual Basic. Compile-to-JS languages wouldn't work, they're all too different. Not even Lisps. The idea doesn't really have legs.