Evolutionary Programming!

[Guillaume Piolat via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 5 January 2016 at 16:10:21 UTC, Jason Jeffory wrote:
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> Any more thoughts?

In our times programming languages exist and are adopted for 
market reasons.
Because the basic needs have been fulfilled, better alternatives 
like D can get relatively ignored by the market for a long time.
We never had such excellent languages, such an amount of new 
ones, yet the old players tend to get more entrenched like 
somehow history stopped.

Brookes noted long ago that new language design would yield 
diminishing returns: 
http://worrydream.com/refs/Brooks-NoSilverBullet.pdf

That and the fact that hardware/OS vendors have incentive to push 
entrenched languages to developers, I don't see something too 
shocking happening in the language space.