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Why Are ALL Programming Languages So Low Level?Memory allocations and deallocations, threads, locking, execution control (such as loops, function calls, conditionals), etc... these are are machine specific features. Why do we not have a high level language that goes beyond these things? ALL current languages are low level even if the programming community tries to say otherwise. Handling hardware is low level. Why do languages even touch execution which is a technique used to get around current hardware limitations? What will happen when processors can execute seemingly infinite instructions at the exact same time? Execution control will no longer exist. More to the point, mixing execution control and data manipulation all in the same statement is a hard coded custom solution. You cannot reuse components that have been welded together in this fashion. Why do languages still use this archaic form of programming that can never lead to reuse? There is a solution, but I'm just curious why the lack of will to move forward. Haven't you ever thought it strange that you can only have unidirectional control statements within functions? Why the skew? Have you not ever noticed that sending messages between computers doesn't work well in an RPC fashion because the other machine is not required to respond? So don't you think that perhaps there might be something wrong with the entire concept of functions and procedures in programming languages? Is not the difficulty of having multiple returns values a sign that something is seriously wrong? So my main question is: Why are ALL programming languages so low level and more generally obsolete for general purpose use when all the signs are impossible to avoid? Why the refusal from language designers to move forward? Can they really not see the solution? By Vorlath at 2006-06-07 22:37 | LtU Forum | previous forum topic | next forum topic | other blogs | 37283 reads
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