On 7/19/2011 8:24 AM, Ondřej Bílka wrote:
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 05:16:24AM -0700, Casey Ransberger wrote:
Even if it were possible to have a last language, it would be double plus
ungood.
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Paul Homer<[1][email protected]>
wrote:
Realistically, I think Godel's Incompleteness Theorem implies that there can be
no
'last' programming language (formal system).
But I think it is possible for a fundamentally different paradigm make a huge
leap in
our ability to build complex systems. My thinking from a couple of years back:
[2]http://theprogrammersparadox.blogspot.com/2009/04/end-of-coding-as-we-know-it.html
Sorry but it is very similar to XML will make everything interoperable articlies
yeah, most things tend to change in scale, but not really in essence...
if the essence were changing, there would likely need to be a continual
change in languages to retain viability. however, to a large degree this
has not been the case, as many languages (such as C) retain their
widespread viability after decades of use with only relatively modest
changes to the core language, despite computing as a whole now being
much different now than it was several decades ago.
granted, improvements are likely to still exist, but when and where, and
their extent, well, this has yet to be seen...
but, for the time being, the world is as it is, and most effective is
likely to act on what is already known to be the case.
or such...
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