Programming Language Research
Been spending some time on contributions to
this lambda thread, which is more about "the great questions
in programming language research" than about Hamming's paper,
which I still haven't read. My main points are that
"the great questions in programming language research"
are all social questions that are being largely ignored by
the programming language research community,
and that
See
this entry
and
this response to Frank A.'s excellent but slightly off -target comments.
Question:
Why does so little programming language research involve actual experiments comparing existing languages and language features, instead of creating still more new ones that we still don't have the tools to evaluate?
Answer: cause it's more fun to create new ones, just like it's more fun
to create new programs rather than fix bugs in gcc.
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