Comment on Why are so many new programming languages being developed?

affenlehrer@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Take a look at LISP, Prolong and Erlang you’ll be able to answer the question yourself. Just a little tutorial for each of them. You’ll notice they have very different but fascinating ideas about how things could or should be done.

Maybe after a while you’ll get thoughts like “I wish language A had this feature of language B” and that’s kind of how new languages appear. Because it’s often not possible to add such features or concepts to established “old” languages without breaking everything or losing backwards compatibility.

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