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People have been searching for the One True Language for decades. Why is it so important that there be one? The interfaces we use to talk between components a
by kemiller 14y ago
People have been searching for the One True Language for decades. Why is it so important that there be one? The interfaces we use to talk between components are so much more important, so that we can use what fits for different parts.
- rubashov 14y agoI don't know about the "One True" language, but it seems clear that people are casting about for the next generation successor to C and C++; that is to say a fast, compiled, statically typed language incorporating the lessons of the last 25 years and dropping various baggage. It's what the whole D/rust/go thing is about. D is really great. The terseness, modeling power, and general ease of writing it correctly the first time seem to obviate the need for higher level languages, for me.
- jhuni 14y ago> People have been searching for the One True Language for decades. The one true language is mathematics. John McCarthy (a math professor) discovered that programs could be represented as out degree one directed graphs (cons cells) that compose mathematical functions (lambda expressions). These simple mathematical principles form the basis of the functional programming paradigm and they have led Lisp programmers to success for nearly a half a century.