The Hundred-Year Language - "I think that, like species, languages will form evolutionary trees, with dead-ends branching off all over. We can see this happening already. Cobol, for all its sometime popularity, does not seem to have any intellectual descendants. It is an evolutionary dead-end-- a Neanderthal language" Paul Graham
An interesting article about the furture of programming languages - this would have been a great thesis for linguistics when I was in college - wish I had thought of it but then again I wasn't really into computers back then, seems so long ago - college, seven years ago...
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