Niklaus Wirth lives! Here's an amazing interview from 2018 about programming language principles and history. (It makes me hope Carmack is still giving impromptu talks when 2054 rolls around.)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUgrS_KbSI8 …
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Don’t get me wrong. Headers etc feel archaic to me. But a big trend is just gradually adding to already popular languages. Higher order functions, type inference of varying sophistication, some syntax cleanups and sugar are fairly widespread now.
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If brains are capable of using and understanding the code, it’s OK if the grammar doesn’t fall neatly in the Chomsky hierarchy. There’s no fundamental barrier to future tools and compilers being like having a bunch of expert programmers reading over your shoulder and suggesting.
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I have this hunch that indeed I'd like something that had a low-level layer and not a whole lot of abstraction, combined with proofs for safety and soundness
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