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Why can't there be an "ultimate" programming language?
- lutusp 13y agoI don't know why no one offered these answers over at StackOverflow, but: * Computer languages reflect the reality of the computers on which they run -- how you allocate resources, how you orchestrate events -- and as the computer changes, so does the language. For example, why have interrupts on a processor that doesn't support them? Why have multithreading on a processor that supports only one thread? Computer languages change along with the computers themselves. * There is already an ultimate computer language. It's called mathematics.
- DerpObvious 13y agoBecause having to program a hundred DSLs in your super-language is as (or more) annoying as just learning a handful of different languages (and runtimes) in the first place.