Where are the new languages?
- by Johnson William
Most now mainstream/popular (interpreted|scripting) programming languages were created around the 1990's. (Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP just to name a few).
How many people knew about those languages around 1-2 years after they had been first published?
Are there languages with potential of becoming as important as e.g.: Python or PHP being developed at the moment? I mean ... is there someone even seriously trying to create a new one?
If the first version of a programming language is published and nearly nobody knows about it, as it was with all the languages I've mentioned above, where could I find out? Is there some sort of "list" or "network" dealing just with non-language-specific news?
Is the area where Perl, Python, Ruby and PHP fit in already fully covered?
Do you know of concrete examples of new programming languages being seriously developed or rising at the moment? (Except Google's go!)