what language do you think will take place c++? i mean will c++ always be the most popular? (i don't think so.) which programming language(s) do you think have a good future? can it be D? or E? :) and how will be the "programming" in future. will it be easier or harder? and other questions about this subject.... waiting for your comments..

It's hard to tell now what language will replace current ones as a mainstream, professional development tool. My opinion is that as time passes, different areas of development will start using different languages. It's not unusual to see C# being used instead of C++ if development speed (as opposed to runtime speed) is what counts, or php if you're developing online applications. To each language its niche, you should never expect a language to be efficient for all purposes.

I believe as time passes:
- Coding will become easier because languages/libraries will implement commonly used routines that will ease the work of the coder. This is already the case with C#, where implementation is made extremely easy by the many language features.
- Design (as in, deciding what to code) will become harder, because as implementation time decreases and customer expectations raise, applications will become more complex, and therefore require more design put into them.
- Debugging will also become easier (it already has) because of 1° languages that do not allow bug-prone constructs (EVEN if experienced programmers do not create bugs using these features) and 2° better and better debug tools and protocols (we've seen unit testing, assertions, exceptions, call stacks, variable watching etc appear during our lifetime, who knows what we'll come up with next time?). However, as designs grow increasingly complex, the amount of design-related bugs will increase before general "bugless designing" methods appear.
- Optimization will become harder, if you want to do it by hand. Optimizing compilers and linkers are getting increasingly smarter over time, with professionals entirely dedicated to making them better. The only case where a programmer might want to optimize something by hand is a case where he knows better than the optimizer what is efficient and what is not. These cases will become increasingly complex and convoluted as optimizers grow smarter.

Let me guess there aint be any programming languages , but powerful AI that get's your request and builds program without bugs, with help , and documentation in seconds. You just have to tell him what you really want' to get. So what would programmers do instead of programming ? Who knows :)

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So what would programmers do instead of programming ? Who knows :)

easy, take credit for the AI's work and spend all day down the pub [grin]

Ofcourse the would patent it :) and get royalties for it's work, that's gonna be cool :)