Hacker News had a post titled "Modern Language Wishlist". I bookmarked it, perused the comments that tried to guess the language that the post was alluding to, and finally clicked over to the actual article.
While the list is a pretty good and pragmatic one, I can't help but feel that we programmers are a content lot. All the things on the wishlist were incremental improvements at best.
We build these big skyscrapers using tools that were used to build huts, methinks. Shouldn't the prime questions be:
What is the biggest "thing" that a programming language models?
And how close is this to an actual running application?
... I ask?
While the list is a pretty good and pragmatic one, I can't help but feel that we programmers are a content lot. All the things on the wishlist were incremental improvements at best.
We build these big skyscrapers using tools that were used to build huts, methinks. Shouldn't the prime questions be:
What is the biggest "thing" that a programming language models?
And how close is this to an actual running application?
... I ask?
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