Discussion on: How Would You Create the Perfect Coding Language?

[Matt Ellen]

I'd really like to try my hand at inventing a language, if only I had the time!

I'd probably make something like Erlang: a functional language optimised for parallel programming.

• I'd want to make it as deterministic as possible, so it could be "easy" to make real time systems.
• I'd want it to run efficiently so that it would be suitable for low power systems.
• I'd give it really good documentation, so getting started didn't seem like an insurmountable task.