The Hundred-Year Language


This entry is about a reading called “The Hundred year language” and I am going to talk about the reading and also give a brief opinion of what I read and well I will start by talking about the evolution of technology, I still remember when I had my first cellphone, it was a big blue and white brick, with somewhat of a touch screen and I was amazed about everything, the camera, the usefulness, the games and in that moment it never crossed my mind to think that many years later I would have something far more useful, portable (and perhaps good looking).

This is something in common in technology, everything we have right now was a dream or even something never thought of 10, 20 years ago and if we see the televisions of 10 years ago, the computers, the cars, everything has evolved so fast and become so much more than what they were before that it is crazy to find something that has not evolved from technology nowadays, and programming languages as crazy as it may seem, have not evolved and the reason why is very obvious and it is because programming languages are classified as mathematic expressions, not as technology and to see evolution in this area is like Stephen Hawking’s proving a theory of Einstein, it does not happen usually.

This is why as engineers we should learn many languages, their strengths and their weaknesses so that we can choose wisely which one is better suited for our projects and to grow as engineers, this was a great reading overall and I hope to have more like this one.

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