The hundred-year language

It's hard to believe a life without java, at least for me. Java was the second programming language I learned to program, immediately I fell in love with it. And to think in the future it may disappear it make me feel blue. I know that languages evolve and that some have a dead-end like Cobol. But maybe java won't disappear, maybe the author was making a wrong assumption, maybe java it's the beginning of a new era of programming languages.

One thing I have clear is that the programming languages are going to be much better hundred-years from now. And the saddest thing is that no one of us reading this is going to be alive to check them. If Moore's law is still relative. The programming languages we have now won't be working, they CPUs will be 70quintilion-ish faster than ours. They will be needing programming languages that can communicate with that CPU power.

One statement that the author gives us is "If you have the opportunity to program in one of those hundred-year programming languages will you do it? " Heck yeah! I can imagine the low-level control being as simple as a "hello world" in python. No one can know how a high-level programming language will be in the following hundred years, but we can make blurry assumptions. Turing used to say that you cannot know if a computer has its own thought unless you were the computer. I think a similar aspect applies to it, you cannot know how a hundred-year apart programming language will be unless you are living that century.

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