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This article is about spoken languages, but much of its spirit can be extended to invented [1] programming languages; that is, the likelihood, no, the inevitabi
by fogus 17y ago
This article is about spoken languages, but much of its spirit can be extended to invented [1] programming languages; that is, the likelihood, no, the inevitability of their being stillborn.
[1]: they are all invented of course
- shabda 17y agoAgreed. Languages and Frameworks are grown over time, not invented. That is why I have much higher hopes for Jython or Jruby than Groovy or Scala. Similarly all successful frameworks (Django, Rails and PHP) were extracted out of existing software, not invented.
- notaddicted 17y agoThat is the case, but languages grow by adding features from experimental languages.