The mother of all languages

The last week or so, I have been roaming the internet (especially Wikipedia) for information about alternative programming languages, paradigms and theories about these two. I have no solution what so ever about this. But finally I know how I am going to attack this problem of understanding the magic of programming languages.

When I solve any programming related problem I usually break down the problem in layers of abstraction. In other words, I build many small problem solvers which in turn makes it easy to solve the bigger problem in the end. So I think I need to start looking at the roots, and then work my way from there. I want a language in which I can define any other language implementing any programming paradigms.

I will keep you informed of any progress..

Addition: After writing this article I googled "The mother of all languages". Didn't find anything useful. Went to bed, couldn't sleep. Got up and googled "programming paradigms" and found this article: Language Oriented Programming: The Next Programming Paradigm This is exactly what I'm after right now.

Stuck with the traditional approach

I wanted to write a blog about programming paradigms. But it end up being a personal story of my life, so I crapped it. Anyway, what I wanted to say is all experiences it good, even bad ones. And therefore it doesn’t hurt to try out new languages, to broaden your perspective. But before choosing a new language to learn you might want to look at these links first:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_paradigm - talks about programming paradigms. The fact that there was something called programming paradigm was unknown to me until a while ago when I started to investigate different languages.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiparadigm_programming_language - this is the killer. It talks about how most programming languages are multi-paradigm.

Read these Wikipedia articles. They are both interesting and thoughtful. When you have read about them then you would probably want to continue with these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperative_programming - imperative programming, common in most languages, but you never see “at least two years of experience with imperative programming” in job advertising.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming - object oriented programming, you know this one, and you see it everywhere “at least two years of experience with object oriented programming”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_programming - generics, the hot stuff in C# 2.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming - functional programming, the hot stuff in C# 3.

Try to question what is good and what is bad in each paradigm. That is a valuable leasson for you!