[cosmotriton]

[A note from the peanut gallery]

Miguel loves C and that's perfectly fine - it's a great language, easy to read and write, powerful, but does suffer from some of the same fundamental problems as C++... Both languages are tightly bound to today's base machine architecture - they are called "systems programming languages" for this very reason.

I find it odd that we have this continual debate about older (and widely used) systems programming languages (the ones that are actually used and form the basis of modern computing....), but neglect the arguably more interesting - and obvious - problem: the lack of a viable, consumer class, non-Von Neumann machine architecture. What would it mean for the advent and design of new high level programming languages that are safe, performant, productive, portable, and that directly map to this new machine model?

The future will always be built on the past, but this doesn't mean we have to keep re-inventing the same problems to solve... Here's to a future of new machine models and the languages used to program them efficiently, effectively, safely, and easily.