> From my point of view, all languages which don't add anything new and improved are a drag on our collective computing experience.
I couldn't disagree more. The more people writing languages and implementing standard libraries the better.
Are these minor languages going to be used in production? An even smaller minority of them, sure.
For the majority of them it's a chance for developers to relearn data structures and algorithms and compilers. Real, hands-on practice that is hard to beat with any other method. I only got decent at algorithms and data structures by implementing languages and standard libraries.
I'd rather every developer built their own language.
I agree with everything you wrote! And yet... the endless myriad of programming languages which don't bring anything particularly new is still annoying me. Perhaps I'm just getting old :)
I couldn't disagree more. The more people writing languages and implementing standard libraries the better.
Are these minor languages going to be used in production? An even smaller minority of them, sure.
For the majority of them it's a chance for developers to relearn data structures and algorithms and compilers. Real, hands-on practice that is hard to beat with any other method. I only got decent at algorithms and data structures by implementing languages and standard libraries.
I'd rather every developer built their own language.