The Hundred-Year Language

 This reading is called “The Hundred-Year Language” and the idea behind this reading is that we live in a time in which everything around us is evolving, mainly technology which nowadays has changed many things in our society, how we interact with each other, how we search for things, how we even buy things and overall everything that we have of technology right now would have been impossible many years ago, if we compare the first computer to the device in which I’m writing this entry right now, first of all the first computer was giant, while this device fits in my backpack and has several times more power than that first computer, this is crazy and the rate in which this technology evolves is amazing, in some years perhaps my phone is going to be far more portable than my computer, and far more powerful and well this is the world we live in right now, a world where everything has evolved for the best, right?

Well the answer is that no, some things have been left behind and one of this thins are programming languages and Pall Graham tells us that programming languages have not evolved in the same pace as technology because well programming languages are not technology there are basically 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.

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