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I doubt that it makes any difference either way. If the program is a self-contained application that is targeted at end users, then they won't care one way or the other what language it is coded in. …

Is this assumption true? Am I understanding correctly the general function of an interpreter? Or is something I wrote wrong? It is true, in theory. But a practical interpreter will do at least s …

Not an entirely serious answer, but Unlambda has to be a contender. You can't get any more "pure functional" than S K I combinators.

Flip this around and ask yourself why someone would want to use your new language? What does it provide that existing languages don't provide? Are the advantages big enough to warrant someone takin …

As a pragmatist, yes I would consider using it in my next project. However, I'd also consider other languages / platforms that had the right technical attributes AND a more open and community orien …

Java is relevant and will continue to be relevant for many years in the Enterprise computing world. Whether it continues to be relevant in other areas depends a lot on what Oracle does. If they in …

I think that you could view modifiers on declarations as adjectives. For instance: static int foo; says "We declare foo to be a static int". The word static an adjective, both in the Java con …

But yes, macros can be designed and implemented better than in C/C++. The problem with macros is that they are effectively a language syntax extension mechanism that rewrites your code into something …

My interested is mostly academic. It comes from the (subjective) observation and I wonder if someone has researched it a bit. Also, I'm talking about a correlation, not about a rule. Firstly, no …

Another really old example of something akin to anonymous functions / lambdas is call-by-name in Algol 60. Note however that call-by-name is closer to passing macros as parameters than passing true f …

I always thought pass by value is a legacy from the early languages, because the designers had never seen anything else. This is a bogus characterization in two respects: It (kind of) assumes t …

One could list hundreds of mistakes in hundreds of language, but IMO it is not a useful exercise from a language design perspective. Why? Because something that would be a mistake in one language wo …

Should I just pick one language/framework/IDE and sort of forget about the other things that are available for awhile? Basically, yes. If you keep flitting between technologies, you'll never g …

The first compilers were implemented using assembly language. And the first assemblers were implemented by coding programs in binary ... It is not THAT long ago that programming in binary was stil …

In most dynamic languages, you can at least dynamically test the type of an object or value. And there are static type inferencers, checkers and/or enforcers for some dynamic languages: e.g. for …