In my last post I speculated that we can infer from history that a necessary precondition for toppling our existing programming language champions is that there should be a significant expansion in computing. A number of reasons come to mind why this...

I hope so. If history is anything to go by it seems inevitable. I have been in the computing field since the mid seventies, mostly in an academic/research/advanced developement context. I've have used many programming languages over the years, but...