> Constraints that very important for most creativity. But one must pick > constraints that make sense. > His points about that there are few new paradigm shifts in the > programming language worlds seems valid though. > What would such a paradigm shift and how does it look. > Are there any clues to what it would be, based on history, like a white spot > on the map ?
All you have to do is look at a more ancient discipline, namely math but take your pick, to see that surprising developments will always happen. We are never ever close to the end. A wise man once said that the more questions you answer, the more questions you confront. It's an exponential process. To think that there can ever be an end is naive. I think the push at the beginning of the 20th century to ground mathematics on a purely logical foundation showed this. What will quantum computation languages look like? When we start programming biological systems, what will those formal systems look like? ... it goes on. Has anyone here seen Maurice Margenstern's hyperbolic computing automata? http://www.lita.univ-metz.fr/~margens/index_gb.html http://www.amazon.fr/Cellular-automata-hyperbolic-spaces-Implementation/dp/2914610831/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1310941596&sr=8-1 wes _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
