The Hundred-Year Language
The Hundred-Year Language Inside the software engineer filed, there is always a controversial topic, which programming language is the best? And the answer in most cases is: it depends. But this excellent article by Paul Graham , gives us an insight to a branch of this topic, which programming language is the future-proof? Paul Graham use an example of how programming languages developed like how animal species evolve, like branches in a tree, but, as we know, some branches lead to a death end, and this behaviour also applies to the development word, Cobol is a good example about this, even do it was very useful and powerful at its time, now its seems that Cobol branch leads to a death end. But in the bright side, with each death programming language at least one good thing about it will be used in newer and better languages, so is not all waste. The other important factor is how computers are becoming ultra-fast, so more and more speed is stopping to be a requirement because it is