Why can't there be an "ultimate" programming language?(stackoverflow.com)

1 pointsby wiradikusuma13 tahun yang lalu2 comments

Why can't there be an "ultimate" programming language?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2495830/why-cant-there-be-an-ultimate-programming-language

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lutusp13 tahun yang lalu

I don't know why no one offered these answers over at StackOverflow, but:

* Computer languages reflect the reality of the computers on which they run -- how you allocate resources, how you orchestrate events -- and as the computer changes, so does the language. For example, why have interrupts on a processor that doesn't support them? Why have multithreading on a processor that supports only one thread? Computer languages change along with the computers themselves.

* There is already an ultimate computer language. It's called mathematics.

DerpObvious13 tahun yang lalu

Because having to program a hundred DSLs in your super-language is as (or more) annoying as just learning a handful of different languages (and runtimes) in the first place.