On Wednesday, 6 January 2016 at 10:49:45 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Wednesday, 6 January 2016 at 10:09:57 UTC, Guillaume Piolat
wrote:
Brookes noted long ago that new language design would yield
diminishing returns:
http://worrydream.com/refs/Brooks-NoSilverBullet.pdf
That and the fact that hardware/OS vendors have incentive to
push entrenched languages to developers, I don't see something
too shocking happening in the language space.
"no silver bullet" is an anecdotal meme from the 80s. The only
"insight" it provides is that we cannot engineer out the need
for good designers. That's rather obvious, isn't it?
I guess obvious in hindsight.
The point stands about programming languages: their debut brought
us order of magnitude improvements, and new PL won't. But i'll
take the 50% improvement any day of the week of course. :)
