Re: Have we reached the asymptotic plateau of innovation in programming language design?

"Derek M. Jones" <derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk>
Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:54:13 +0000

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From: "Derek M. Jones" <derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:54:13 +0000
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 12-03-012
Keywords: history, design
Posted-Date: 08 Mar 2012 19:23:56 EST

All,


> Research in Programming Languages
> Is there still research to be done in Programming Languages?
> http://tagide.com/blog/2012/03/research-in-programming-languages/


Interesting post that spurred me into writing something related:
http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2012/03/08/the-fatal-programming-language-research-mistake/


> [Personally, I'd say there's been precious little new in programming
> languages since Simula gave us OOP in the late 1960s. In your responses,
> please remember this is comp.compilers, not comp.semicolon-placement.flame.
> -John]


I thought that we had now progressed on to whether indentation should be
part of the language syntax ;-)

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