Comments on: Why are there so many programming languages?

By: selven

selven — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:14:00 +0000

@jean paul ruche:
Excellent thoughts!

By: avinash

avinash — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:56:38 +0000

Maybe this?

Excellent comment by the way. May I know what kind of background you have?

By: jean paul ruche CSE2B

jean paul ruche CSE2B — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:14:20 +0000

Georg Cantor (the one who has invented the theory of sets) –introduction to computer theory–put the dilemna that infinity comes in different sizes! my conclusion is that these sizes are asymptotic, they converges towards an axis….to be debated…

but we know that all sciences should converges (einstein, hawking) to reach a unified theory of science that would englobe all sciences –

to state someone great that said the origin of science is science

and to what is science heading….

einstein gives the analogy of a child entering a library he knows these books have not been written out of nowhere but who wrote these lies in the meanders of the unnecessary as we are at the origin and trying to understand the content first…..

so many programming languages is the history of manking heading towards perfection—- as perfection takes experience and experience is the name we give to our errors(to quote). these errors are essential and contribute to the creation of something……
few weeks ago in the radio (france inter) i heard that some 200 languages in the world is being menaced to extinction but they are talked by few (5-10) persons only.

is it acceptable? who can say…

but evolution of mankind has showed that the universe do not care of history (at least our vision of it) many marvels of the world has been faced to time and disappeared…without ‘ souvenirs’ Karl Marx has a vision of a pianist as an art that cannot be captured then came the ability to record music….

to say that what is extinct today will be recovered later. Example ,As light travels slower that time…. there are memories of our planet that can be seen in space….

many programming languages are bound to fall and has….

but the gist of it remains….all the programming languages are boiling down to something…..we are not too sure of what yet

but to something i guest……

By: Steven

Steven — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 23:54:18 +0000

The tower fell due to the global economy

By: Olivier

Olivier — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:17:06 +0000

There are many programming languages because there are a lot of developers.

The tower of Babel is also used in a software context in by Fred Brooks, “Why Did the
Tower of Babel Fall?”

By: avinash

avinash — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:02:01 +0000

Exactly!

“Les grands esprits se rencontrent”

By: BlueBerry

BlueBerry — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:10:22 +0000

If I’m not mistaken Avinash, that Tower of Babel painting also graces the cover of Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham

By: Raj

Raj — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 05:51:01 +0000

Hi Avinash

I couldn’t log to my personal email but thought you’d probably be following this debate
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/15/133237

By: selven

selven — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 17:32:46 +0000

i would say, everyone wants to give the computer world a personal touch of his, and not every time there are ways that exists to make that touch possible, so comes in new languages to help those artists to add their touch to the world.

By: Eddy Young

Eddy Young — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:30:30 +0000

Each language solves a particular type of problem. The more choices we have, the better.