[NBLUG/talk] Research For A New Language.

[Bill Kendrick]

On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 10:17:58PM -0700, Edward Mendoza wrote:
> Regarding programming languages, it seems that the present ones are based,
> at best, on assembly language, if even that close to the computer language
> of 1s and 0s.

Thank heavens, yes. :)


> I'm curious to know if it would be beneficial if in the future there were a
> substantial investment made (perhaps several million dollars or even much
> more) and lasting several years, for a large team of software engineers to
> develop a new, super language starting from scratch with the 1s and 0s?

That would be short-sighted.  The "1s and 0s" of computers vary from
architecture to architecture, and which architectures are popular
(and in which fields) changes over time.

If someone had done this from the old 8-bit 6502 CPU back in the early 80s,
it would be absolutely useless on the 32-bit x86 CPUs today, for example.

-bill!