Re:The Hundred-Year Language (2003)
by dawidloubser on Monday March 20, 2017 @12:47PM
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Ever since reading this essay 14 years ago (has it really been that long?!) I have always thought:
Haskell. He's talking about something like Haskell - but with whatever additional powers of abstraction and simplification mankind manages to dream up.
I say this, because I have yet to find such an elegant way of expressing computation. But, on the other hand, I have yet to find a "serious" language with as many performance land-mines, which possibly might just not matter given orders of magnitude more memory and computing power.
Given a couple of orders of magnitude, who cares that String = [Char]. It's damned elegant.
For everything else, I'll bet we will use the "C" of the 21st century - Rust :-)
JavaScript will probably continue tracking functional languages like Haskell for many years, albeit remaining without the type system that make them truly useful.
Thank you for re-posting this long-forgotten essay, and taking me down memory lane...
Haskell. He's talking about something like Haskell - but with whatever additional powers of abstraction and simplification mankind manages to dream up.
I say this, because I have yet to find such an elegant way of expressing computation. But, on the other hand, I have yet to find a "serious" language with as many performance land-mines, which possibly might just not matter given orders of magnitude more memory and computing power.
Given a couple of orders of magnitude, who cares that String = [Char]. It's damned elegant.
For everything else, I'll bet we will use the "C" of the 21st century - Rust :-)
JavaScript will probably continue tracking functional languages like Haskell for many years, albeit remaining without the type system that make them truly useful.
Thank you for re-posting this long-forgotten essay, and taking me down memory lane...