MovableBlog: On Computer Languages and Strings

Nuance 2.0

April 13, 2003

It's been blogged plenty elsewhere, and, necessarily, here too: The Hundred-Year Language are ruminations on what will make a programming that will last into the next century. Tim Bray follows up with thoughts on strings.

Update 11:10 PM: I read The Craft of Programming earlier today, and going through the aggregator just now, realized that this is related to the above.

Posted by Richard at 10:04

Comments

This reminds me of the excellent article I read a while ago...

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000319.html