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Why do they keep making new languages
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this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2023
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New languages deal with challenges the old languages faced differently, with hindsight of how those languages dealt with those challenges and how they could have done things better.
We don't even have a universal language for communication. That may not be a bad thing, either. There's a theory that the language you speak changes the way you perceive the world - I believe that's true with programming as well. If we only had Java, we'd only get Java-style solutions.
That language theory imo is pretty well shown to be very small via tests described well here:the language hoax.
Sort of with you wrt computer languages though