I've been thinking about your question since you posed it. I was tempted to respond with a facile answer: "Why do we need light bulbs, Mr. Edison? People are still not using gas lamps to their full potential."
I think a programming language may be thought of as a black box or machine. The inputs are human talent and effort. The output is a computer program that is hopefully the solution to some business problem. We are all aware of business problems that have not been amenable to a programmatic solution, and of many attempts to apply the computer language machine to a business problem with poor results. Some people are unhappy with the amount of effort that must be put into the machine to produce a satisfactory output. What is the answer? Well, certainly one answer would be to blame the inputs. But others say "we are going to design a different machine that hopefully does a better job of turning human talent and effort into solutions." I for one applaud those efforts. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Roger Suhr Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2016 10:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: A Programing language called Scala? Why do we need more programming languages. Progr as mmer have not yet learned all they could about the existing ones. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
