If I were to invent a programming language for the 21st century

Re:If I were to invent a programming language for the 21st c... by tonic-music on Saturday November 17, 2018 @05:09PM (#18477626)

So, COBOL for everyone then? lol. Your "create file" example looks exactly like COBOL. I disagree completely that business-oriented languages (the BO in COBOL stands for "Business Oriented") are the answer.

You decry DSLs because they are "worthless" for the user to learn -- but you forget that they make the work of the original developers that much easier, which is why they exist.

You bring up Lisp as an example and then are upset at its size. If there is one language to rule them all (or at least one that's covered all the bases), it would have to be Lisp. Of course, there's no one perfect language for everything. To paraphrase Ansel Adams, there's no perfect language only the perfect language for the kind of programs you write.

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Re:If I were to invent a programming language for the 21st c... by reificator on Saturday November 17, 2018 @05:11PM (#18477632)

The buttons at the bottom are not a survey, the rest of the article is hidden behind them.

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Re:If I were to invent a programming language for the 21st c... by tonic-music on Saturday November 17, 2018 @05:31PM (#18477702)

That's a poor UI for an article. Just say what you want to say! If this article were written in the hypothetical, it would make the point much better.

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Re:If I were to invent a programming language for the 21st c... by Technetium_Hat on Sunday November 18, 2018 @12:55AM (#18479056)

That appears to be the gimmick of that entire website, based on the URL.

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