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What if all this... A sucks use B... Is just... Different strokes for different folks? Meaning, due to our brains being differently wired some forms of program

• setr 6y ago
  If you assume "brain wiring", then you're basically making the case that everything is relative, and there's really no way to improve things beyond the state they're in. Programming can never get any better, and languages can never improve, because it's all different strokes for different folks. But we definitely know how to make things worse for just about everyone. Use brainfuck. Or Piet. Or a straight-up turing machine. And if we can make things (pretty much) objectively worse, then it's very likely we can make things objectively better. And there's not much reason to assume we've already reached some kind of end-game, where we're at the tip of the spear for language design, or even the core fundamental models of design. I mean shit, we're only like 60 years into the subject. The legendary programmers of lore still walk the earth. It might take some rewiring, but I for one believe there is a much better world for us to program in, than C, Java and C#. I think much more likely than different "brain wiring" is universal brain damage, from working, breathing, living, with the languages we know, love and despise today. Brain damage might be harder to fix however; in which case we're dealing with language advances one funeral at a time.