YAFPL

02014-09-03T22:03:24+00:00

Someone should build a web site where you select a bunch of options:

Dynamic or static?
Strongly or weakly typed?
Functional or OO?
Block markers or semantic whitespace?
Automatic or manual memory allocation?
UTF-8 or legacy crap?
What index is the first element of an array?
Immutable or mutable variables?

…and click a button, and it spits out a skeleton programming language for you.

Some days it seems like someone must already have done so.

Not that I want to go back to the days when there were only a handful of languages anyone used, and almost everything was C or C++. In a way we’ve entered a golden age of new language experimentation.