Pascal

What was the point of this language?  I mean in the early 1990s.  C existed, so why this as well?

LISP

What was the point of this language?  I mean in the early 2000s.  Haskell existed, so why this as well?

Why do you exist?  Other people existed, so why you as well?

[b]C[/c]
What was the point of this language?  I mean in the early 1980's.  ASM existed, so why this as well?

English

What was the point of this language?  I mean in the early 1800's.  Latin existed, so why this as well?

Holy fucking shit.

I thought school was back in

C
What was the point of this language?  I mean in the late 1970s.  Scheme existed, so why this as well?

New languages are created because of hard-defined limitations of older languages versus user requirements and preferences.  That is the theory, anyway.  One leading example, though I would call it more of a scripting language - would be HTML which severely needs a fundamental reconstitution that even CSS do not bring.  More close to reality, though, is that aside from procedural changes that were required for object oriented affinity and perhaps some hassle-free GUI approachability, the only reason most new languages appear these days is because people believe in arrogance that they can build a better mousetrap that the public will buy.  A less cynical, and probably an even closer, examination would probably determine that not all languages are created equal and the weakness of a language to the established mode of thinking can be its strength.  This last point, I believe, is probably most accurate.

Back to cynicism: if Apple created iCode, some people would jump on it just because it is Apple even if it brought little to no enhancements to the growing queue of languages.

U MENA XCODE

This thread
What was the point of this thread? I mean in early 2010. Other threads existed, so why this as well?

>>1
1990s
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I'm pretty sure pascal was made before C. Also, Pascal's compilation technique made it extremely easy to port to other systems.

>>10
That's an IDE

>>14
Your post suggest that porting C wasn't easy.

>>16
What about his post suggest that porting C wasn't easy?

>>16
No, porting Pascal was shit-easier - half of the compilers were single-pass, for example.

>>18
My C compiler doesn't need any passes, ergo your wrong bitch.

>>1
640k should be enough for everyone
Sound familiar?
There are PCs all over the place, so why Macs? Why retrogaming? Amigas? Chiptunes? There is rap music, so why bother with rock? Pop? Jazz? Folk?

But no. There is one, so let's kill all the others. Let's not have diversity. Not even directional chaos; that might even bring us someplace worthwhile. Can't have that.

Jews
What was the point of those people?  I mean in the early 1940's.  Nazis existed, so why those as well?

Whats the point of our galaxy? I mean in the early times of Milky Way other galaxies existed, so why this one as well?

>>2-23
What was the point of these posts?  I mean in the early 2030s.  >>1 existed, so why these as well?

Don't change these.

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