There are a lot of new programming languages lately. Jonathan Erickson calls it the "programming language renaissance." What's happening? I think the cause is partly that computers are now so powerful that you can get decent performance without writing a native code compiler, and partly that in Web-based applications, you can use any language you want, so there is a prospect of new languages actually getting used. Maybe most important is the example of Larry Wall, who showed everyone that if you build it, they will come.
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