> Few if any programming languages at least in the past 20 years have been able to make much of an impact at all (meaning, significantly reduce the cost of sof

> Few if any programming languages at least in the past 20 years have been able to make much of an impact at all (meaning, significantly reduce the cost of software development) Agreed. I think orthogonal things like LLVM and Git have made a significant impact, but other than that it seems advances in PL have just been bringing ideas from Lisp or other 1950's-1970's languages into modern PLs. > if there were such a revolutionary idea, it would -- like any PL progress -- be slowly carried out and perfected over decades by many research groups. Also agreed. Although I do hope for my own sake that if TN is as good as I suspect, it catches on faster. Two promising areas of research that could accelerate resource allocation are a crypto in ETNs from the ground up and a neural net aided IDE tool.