New NSA-Funded Code Rolls All Programming Languages Into One

An anonymous reader writes "What's your favorite programming language? Is it CSS? Is it JavaScript? Is it PHP, HTML5, or something else? Why choose? A new programming language developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University is all of those and more — one of the world's first "polyglot" programming languages. Sound cool? It is, except its development is partially funded by the National Security Agency, so let's look at it with a skeptical eye. It's called Wyvern — named after a mythical dragon-like thing that only has two legs instead of four — and it's supposed to help programmers design apps and websites without having to rely on a whole bunch of different stylesheets and different amalgamations spread across different files.

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Re:Lack of basic research

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What's happening in America nowadays is very worrying

There are lots of things that are worrying in America. The breakup of the Bell Telephone system (Bell Labs), the elimination of the monopoly on photocopying (Xerox), and any reduction in defense spending (The Skunkworks) aren't among the things that should worry you.

And at that time Darpa funded a lot of basic research as well Today, all gone

R&D spending on both basic and applied reseach has generally been going up for decades until about 2008. Since then, federal R&D spending has been declining strongly, thanks to the policies of our oh-so-science-friendly administration.