Languages

[LucaMs]

According to a legend, because of the Tower of Babel, people speak different languages.

Well, how stupid are we (?) in the computer age to keep creating N programming languages instead of just one?

 

[udg]

Programming languages are (a bit) like Mathematics. You need to design new ones to solve problems your existing tools don't cope well with.
Whole branches of Math were created to solve problems. So were programming languages.
In the 90s I mainly used Lisp and Prolog for AI; doing that same research with my beloved Pascal would have been impraticable at best.

That said, it's true we have "too many" languages to address similar tasks. Consider it as an expression of pure freedom.

 

[John Naylor]

Wait, what? There are other programming languages than B4X!? ? ?

 

[LucaMs]

Programming languages are (a bit) like Mathematics. You need to design new ones to solve problems your existing tools don't cope well with.
Whole branches of Math were created to solve problems. So were programming languages.
In the 90s I mainly used Lisp and Prolog for AI; doing that same research with my beloved Pascal would have been impraticable at best.

That said, it's true we have "too many" languages to address similar tasks. Consider it as an expression of pure freedom.

Not true. Basic itself has evolved over time; a single language, to be updated/modified over the decades would have been enough.

The trouble is that economic interests are involved.

A single language, even human, would solve many problems, but...!

 

[LucaMs]

Programming languages are (a bit) like Mathematics. You need to design new ones to solve problems your existing tools don't cope well with.
Whole branches of Math were created to solve problems. So were programming languages.
In the 90s I mainly used Lisp and Prolog for AI; doing that same research with my beloved Pascal would have been impraticable at best.

That said, it's true we have "too many" languages to address similar tasks. Consider it as an expression of pure freedom.

Not true. Basic itself has evolved over time; a single language, to be updated/modified over the decades would have been enough.

The trouble is that economic interests are involved.

A single language, even human, would solve many problems, but...!

 

[udg]

There are other programming languages than B4X!?

There were other programming languages.. then B4X was born.. and the world is a better place

B4X = Best For Everything

 

[udg]

Ahi, ahi @LucaMs , you have a duplicate post!
That's what happens when someone is used to publish several posts a day, then decides to limit itself..
We miss you.
(a big kiss to Penny)

 

[LucaMs]

That's what happens when someone is used to publish several posts a day, then decides to limit itself..

It happens when the connection throws a tantrum.

 

[rabbitBUSH]

Ahi, ahi @LucaMs , you have a duplicate post!

A self-duplicating Language? (A grand Italian trick - - )
you can respond to both as well

The trouble is that economic interests are involved.

That's true, its a way for academics to justify their existence and fantasize that they are working.

The trouble is that economic interests are involved.

That's true, its a way for academics to justify their existence and fantasize that they are working.
Its an infinite loop.

Consider it as an expression of pure freedom.

its an infinite loop. . . . .