The Hundred-Year Language
We were supposed to drive flying cars 5 years ago, right?, The legacy of some old programming languages is something to be analyzed, because these new languages can be better understood if we, as programmers understand how and why these languages came to be and how can they be improved and what characteristics or tools are lacking. A hard decision for other people is to decide the language to learn or maybe what language use for a project that will be need to be maintained in the future. The operators in a language are one of the most important things about a language, these operators are are the axioms of a language,other parts of the language can be replaced or improved relatively easy, but modifying the axioms of a language can drastically change everything that make this language unique and useful, but sometimes this happens. The languages change, they adopt different things and merge with others, adopting things from others and maybe, this new construction or creature will be