It started off pretty well, but then didnt go anywhere.
I dont think any of our languages are hundred year languages, although COBOL and FORTRAN are in their early fifties. Mostly they wont survive because they arent concise enough to express our ideas in a hundred years. List comprehension in Python is way more concise than the same operation in C or assembly language. Why should we worry about the bookkeeping details of a container in 2100. But we wont be doing programming then. Our AIs will. I aim to be a philosopher of computation by then. I'll tell the AIs old war stories.
I dont think any of our languages are hundred year languages, although COBOL and FORTRAN are in their early fifties. Mostly they wont survive because they arent concise enough to express our ideas in a hundred years. List comprehension in Python is way more concise than the same operation in C or assembly language. Why should we worry about the bookkeeping details of a container in 2100. But we wont be doing programming then. Our AIs will. I aim to be a philosopher of computation by then. I'll tell the AIs old war stories.