[epicgiga]

How many languages do we need again? The amount of time we spend playing around with special case languages and frameworks. Would be nice if machine languages followed the lead of natural languages, with a single one slowly pushing the rest to the sidelines.

[macintux]

What a terrible world that would be. For a while, 20 years ago, it looked like Java was going to be the one language to rule them all; dodged that bullet.

Kitchen sink languages are my least favorite. Give me something with a tight focus on a problem space.

[mratsim]

There were some studies about the impact of the loss of some natural languages. Some represent a complete different ways of handling the world that are worth keeping.

And there is no one size fits all.

[terminaljunkid]

> with a single one slowly pushing the rest to the sidelines.

That didn't quite happen.

> How many languages do we need again? Till you eliminate all tradeoffs in a single language, there would be new ones.

[abrax3141]

Indeed lisp is slowly (very very slowly) doing this. Witness how it seems to get reinvented or embedded in every other language.