The Hundred Year Language
Thinking about what the future’s programming languages be like, I think is a great thought experiment. Because it allows us to aim to that and create said languages. For example let’s say that it is my job to create said programming languages, as the author says, it is absolutely correct that my design would be influenced by the languages I currently know and use. Which I have to say, I don’t see it as a bad idea at all. Some of the languages we use today (2020) are very efficient and easy to understand (at least to me) however I have mentioned to my friends in the past that I hate and love some of the features that every language has, the description of my perfect programming language would be as follows: 1. The language wouldn’t be indentation oriented like python, I would much rather have to use “;” and “{}” in order to make my code work, I don’t know, it seems crazy to me that for example in languages like ABAP the way to finish an instruction would be a “.” 2. My language