Was excited in 1981 when "The Last One" was announced. It meant we wouldn't ever need another programming language.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_One_(software) On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 5:28 PM PINION, RICHARD W. <[email protected]> wrote: > What the world really needs is a HAL9000. > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf > Of Tom Brennan > Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2020 3:25 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Developers say Google's Go is 'most sought after' programming > language of 2020 > > [External Email. Exercise caution when clicking links or opening > attachments.] > > Thanks, now my head is going to explode :) > > Maybe one day it'll be like Star Trek where we get to tell the computer to > create the program for us, like a designer would describe general specs to > a programmer today, then go through an evaluation and corrections without > ever seeing any actual code. > > Now I'm reminded of an episode ending that always bothers me, TNG Hollow > Pursuits: > > "Computer. End programming. Erase all programs filed under Reginald > Barclay." > > <Barclay slowly walks toward the holodeck exit, then stops> > > "Except program nine" > > Hey! It's too late. You already deleted ALL the programs. > > On 5/9/2020 9:47 PM, David Crayford wrote: > > On 2020-05-10 11:33 AM, Tom Brennan wrote: > >> When will it all settle down to just one programming language?? Ha - > >> I know, never. > > > > Never! The new kid on the dynamic language block is Julia > > https://julialang.org/. > > > > It's a very well designed language that feels a lot like Lua. Because > > of the great design it's possible to write a tracing JIT that produces > > code that runs as fast as C. Parallelism is baked in too. It's > > becoming very popular in the data science community and is likely to > > eat into Python pretty quickly. > > > > The reason new languages keep appearing is because the ones we have > > now are not that great. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email > to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > Confidentiality notice: > This e-mail message, including any attachments, may contain legally > privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended > recipient(s), or the employee or agent responsible for delivery of this > message to the intended recipient(s), you are hereby notified that any > dissemination, distribution, or copying of this e-mail message is strictly > prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately > notify the sender and delete this e-mail message from your computer. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
