The Artima Developer Community
Sponsored Link

Heron-Centric: Ruminations of a Language Designer
What would it take for a new language to impress you?
by Christopher Diggins
July 28, 2005
Summary
I am conducting a survey to find out what it would take for a new programming language to impress people.

Advertisement

The grand release of the "new and improved" Heron language is set for September 1st. I want to make as big of a splash as possible, so my question is, what would it take for the language to impress you?

Talk Back!

Have an opinion? Readers have already posted 44 comments about this weblog entry. Why not add yours?

RSS Feed

If you'd like to be notified whenever Christopher Diggins adds a new entry to his weblog, subscribe to his RSS feed.

About the Blogger

Christopher Diggins is a software developer and freelance writer. Christopher loves programming, but is eternally frustrated by the shortcomings of modern programming languages. As would any reasonable person in his shoes, he decided to quit his day job to write his own ( www.heron-language.com ). Christopher is the co-author of the C++ Cookbook from O'Reilly. Christopher can be reached through his home page at www.cdiggins.com.

This weblog entry is Copyright © 2005 Christopher Diggins. All rights reserved.

Sponsored Links



Google
  Web Artima.com   

Copyright © 1996-2019 Artima, Inc. All Rights Reserved. - Privacy Policy - Terms of Use