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Is there ever going to be a perfect language? My impression is that even among "styles" of programming languages, they have benefits and drawbacks. It seems mor

by rifung 11y ago

Is there ever going to be a perfect language? My impression is that even among "styles" of programming languages, they have benefits and drawbacks. It seems more likely that we will be able to understand the problems programmers are faced with, group them, and then make specific languages to tackle each of these groups very well.

ajkjk 11y ago
Oh, probably not, but I have a feeling that none of the languages that exist today will still be used in a 100 years.
lygaret 11y ago
http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/people/PVR/flopsPVRarticle.pdf http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/people/PVR/flopsPVRarticle.pdf Found that in on of the blog posts regarding the OP. Basically, there's been a convergance of certain features of abstraction building, and at least some general outlines of what he refers to as "definitive languages".