Linked by snydeq on Sun 11th Dec 2011 01:35 UTC Permalink for
comment 499935 Several Reasons by umlcat on Mon 12th Dec 2011
17:26 UTC Member since:  I believe, there are several reasons
why programming languages change. They are like people, born,
mature, learn new things (add new features), and sometimes die.
I made a programming language designer tool, for my Graduate
Thesis. Sort of user friendly, with pascal syntax, "Lex"
alternative. Open Source Flex didn't exist, or existed, but,
wasn't mainstream, yet.  It was in the middle 90's, Object
Oriented Programming Languages where on the raise, 4GL's style
like PowerBuiler and XBase where starting to leave the scene.  I
have to defend to my thesis "judges" why my tool was need it,
since there where already many programming languages (same topic
that this post).  I arguee several things, but, the main idea
was that technologies evolve, and change, and where not
constant. That was before Browser Scripting Languages, and
Functional Languages.  Reply Score: 2