Re:The sky is not falling – about the supposed end of dynami...
by jack9 on Sunday November 29, 2015 @10:33AM
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> why such new ones would emerge,
People create languages all the time. Some languages (like PHP) were just created for problems that the creators had, not for some overriding empirical reason. Dynamic languages also tend to be easier to make. There's nothing to suggest people will stop creating languages and then adopting them, when they are tailored toward specific problems. Any reasoning as to why they might not appear is hand waving for attention.
Re:The sky is not falling – about the supposed end of dynami...
by incepted on Sunday November 29, 2015 @10:58AM
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Reread the article. It doesn't say such language will not emerge (I certainly hope people keep creating languages all the time), it says they will not be successful.
People create languages all the time. Some languages (like PHP) were just created for problems that the creators had, not for some overriding empirical reason. Dynamic languages also tend to be easier to make. There's nothing to suggest people will stop creating languages and then adopting them, when they are tailored toward specific problems. Any reasoning as to why they might not appear is hand waving for attention.