until we got to modern languages like python and java where programming almost feels like simply writing out your thoughts. ... No one in 1960 sat down and said, "Ok, let's write python."
For a very good reason: let me invite you to contemplate Python performance on 1960-class hardware.
As to "writing out your thoughts", people did design such a language in 1959...
P.S. Oh, and do your thoughts flow like this..?
public class HelloWorld { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("Hello World"); } }
For a very good reason: let me invite you to contemplate Python performance on 1960-class hardware.
That the implementation of python is fairly slow is a different matter, and high-level languages need not be any slower than, say, C or Fortran, as modern JIT languages demonstrate. It just takes a lot of work to make them fast.
As to "writing out your thoughts", people did design such a language in 1959...
Lisp was also designed during that same period and probably proves your point even better. But 1960's Lisp was as bare-bones as it was high-level; you still had to wrote almost everything yourself from scratch.
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