Re: Five Years After

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On 24/01/2018 14:16, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:

> Committee members have to do something, else they
> will run out of work.

On the contrary, more complexity, more work.

> So the only thing they could do is keep making the computer languages
> more and more complicated.

Nothing happens without scientific efforts towards new concepts of 
language design. There was no any advance for more than 30 years. The 
compiler market was demolished long ago, so there is no commercial 
interest in any research.

Languages are designed either by hobbyists or by monopolists for 
purposes of customer lock and stiffening competition. They recycle old 
ideas good and bad all the same, just like fashion designers do their 
collections.

There is no push from the programmers' side either because there is no 
interest in software quality in general, quality does not sell.

Ergo, use Ada while you can.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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