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Creating a programming language is nothing like building a new standard to replace all the others. If anything, it's like writing a new novel. Why would anyone
by TuringTest 6y ago
Creating a programming language is nothing like building a new standard to replace all the others.
If anything, it's like writing a new novel. Why would anyone do that, when there are so many already written?
- jodrellblank 6y agoCan you answer that question? There are more novels than a person can read in a lifetime. More crime novels alone than a person can read in a lifetime. Must be approaching that for any given category or niche soon, if not already. Are they named “novels” because they are novel? If so a novel experience is a distance from where you currently are, and can plausibly be had backwards in time by reading an old book as well as forwards in time reading a new book, or sideways reading a new genre.
- TuringTest 6y agoNew novels are not written because the writer thinks people have the need to read that particular story, but because the writer has the need to tell that particular story.