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On 29-Jan-20 17:20, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
1970: PL/I will be the language to rule them all. 1980: Ada will be the language to rule them all. (1990: C++ will be the language to rule them all.) 2000: Java will be the language to rule them all. 2010: JavaScript will be the language to rule them all. 2020: Python will be the language to rule them all. The dogs bark, the caravan marches on.
Well said :-)I have seen many "rule them all" languages: Pascal, Modula-2, Perl... even Basic in its heyday. Beware of the toolbox with a single fixed-size wrench.
-- Enrico