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New Languages, and Why We Need Them

Posted July 29, 2010 8:23 AM

From MIT Technology Review:

Creators of two dozen new programming languages--some designed to enable powerful new Web applications and mobile devices--presented their work last week in Portland, OR. The reason for the gathering was the first Emerging Languages Camp at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention.

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07/30/2010 12:01 PM

Yep, the new computers are so fast they need new ways to bloat the code to slow it down again to drive this vicious software-hardware arms race. Otherwise, how would we employ all these people?

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08/01/2010 6:16 AM

according to these authors, the problem was "C++ limited productivity by taking minutes or hours to compile"

why don't they just improve on or allow C++ to "evolve" just like a real human language?

sounds more like the desire to make a name for oneself, rather than being just a helping hand. all EGO.

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