Ask Slashdot: What Should Be the Attributes of an Ideal Programming Language If Computers Were Infinitely Fast?

An anonymous reader writes: Earlier today, Tim Sweeney, the founder of Epic Games, asked his Twitter followers an interesting question: "What are the attributes of an ideal programming language if computers were infinitely fast, and we designed for coding productivity only?" I could think of several things, the chief of which would be getting rid of the garbage collection. I was wondering what other things you folks would suggest?

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If such existed.

[jcochran]

I'd replace a programming language with more of an interview system.

Basically, you'd tell the computer what problem or task you wish it to do. If it knew how to perform the task, then your job is complete. If it doesn't know, it would ask you to break the problem down into smaller sub tasks. You do so and for each sub task that the computer knows how to solve, it would do so. And for each sub task that it didn't know, it would recursively ask how to solve those sub tasks. As for a library, the computer would remember every task that it had been taught previously.

There would still be programmers, but their job wouldn't be using any specific language, but instead describing how to solve problems or perform tasks.