The hundred year language

This week's blog is about the article titled  "The Hundred-Year Language" written by Paul Graham. This article explains and bases on the principle that everything around us is evolving, mainly technology. Nowadays technology has redesigned our day by day lives. Technology has changed so more of our lives that now we don't even notice how tied nd useful these are for us. Computers used to be huge and not being able to be transported from one way to another. Now they can even fit our right hand pocket. This evolutionary rate is amazing, since I am talking about no more than 25 years ago. We think everything now evolves this fast, but what about programming languages? Do they also evolve as fast?

Well the answer is that no, some things have been left out, such as programming languages. Paul Graham tells us that programming languages have not evolved in the same pace as technology because programming languages are not technology, technically. There are mathematics and they have the pace of evolution of them and well the most important thing to know about this is that we have to adapt to the changes in languages and try to be prepared to use each and every one of them because at the end all of these are tools which will help us achieve more things in programming and overall to be better programmers. Paul Graham states that a programming language is a dialect, not technology, and people have to adapt to the use of it. You can't just relearn a programming language in no time. You have to learn, and then also make some judgements, some programming languages are left out because they become unefficient or not worth the shot to learn.

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