"And at no point does it ever occur to you to demand proof that measures such as this will have the desired effect... or, indeed, that the desired effect is indeed worth achieving at all."
(Shrug) There's a difference between prescription and prediction. I predict that after 50 years of doing the same old shit the same old way, the practice of programming is about to undergo a series of wrenching changes that amount to nothing less than revolution. Changes powered by radical new insights into the nature and function of language itself.
I'm not initiating these changes, voting for them, or attempting to persuade other people to do so, as the person I replied to in the other thread is doing. I do welcome having something new and interesting to learn and think about, though.
- you (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44439447)