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> My person vision is lots of tiny languages that work together I personally can't work deeply in more than about 4 languages at once. This might be my memory,
by jared314 12y ago
> My person vision is lots of tiny languages that work together
I personally can't work deeply in more than about 4 languages at once. This might be my memory, my experience level, or it could be a human limit, like the short-term memory 7±2 limit.
- ludamad 12y agoWell I was thinking of little things like Protocol Buffers, which can interoperate with many parent languages, but are so close to data they don't require deep thinking. Edit: RE "Not same level as SQL", I meant in standardization. People can learn about SQL in isolation, too.
- pakled_engineer 12y agoThere is an interview with Don Knuth somewhere where he talks about having to work in numerous low level languages simultaneously to write compilers for different machines in the 1960s. He added that learning MIXAL/MMIX is no big deal compared to the days when every computer had a different architecture you had to learn, sometimes with little documentation.
- pwr22 12y agoApparently the average is five chunks now