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There's a spectrum from machine code up to high level languages. Pretty much all the points on that spectrum already have languages on them. We absolutely don'
by axod 16y ago
There's a spectrum from machine code up to high level languages. Pretty much all the points on that spectrum already have languages on them.
We absolutely don't need any more languages. Languages aren't a problem that needs fixing.
But they're fun to create, which is why people keep creating them. Also it's very much a 'social' and fashion driven thing. Some people can't bear to be using 'last years' language.
- stcredzero 16y agoLanguages aren't a problem that needs fixing. Keeping Multicore machines busy is a problem that needs fixing and it's also an example of a problem amenable to a solution in the form of a new language. http://gigaom.com/2008/06/19/multicores-not-so-secret-problem/ http://gigaom.com/2008/06/19/multicores-not-so-secret-proble...
- axod 16y agoWe've been told for around 10 years now that we'll soon have 128 cores in our laptops. It hasn't happened yet.
- stcredzero 16y agoYeah, but now we have 8 cores in our desktops, and our popular languages can't handle that so well.
- InclinedPlane 16y agoIf you think we don't need any new languages then either you aren't doing anything interesting, aren't paying attention, or you just don't care.
- axod 16y agoName some technological advance or achievement that has only been possible through the creation of a new programming language. edit: Thanks for the downmod to 0. It really does speak volumes.
- randallsquared 16y agoIn the limit (as you must know already), there is nothing you can do in code that could only be possible through the creation of a new programming language. New languages don't make the impossible possible; they make some possibles tractable, and which ones are more so varies by language.