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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Re:I reject the question

[Topwiz]

Also stupid is getting rid of garbage collection. If it happens automatically at infinite speed, removing it would have no effect on your coding productivity.

code would look like shit

[netsavior]

I just imagine a world of cross-joins, extremely complicated in-string, lazy iteration and the like.

If there were no penalty for pivoting data or iterating though sets, we would all gravitate toward the shittiest constructs imaginable...

I mean hell, browsers are basically expected to be limitless now... HTML hello world used to look like "Hello World" Now it looks like
"Hey javascript framework, load 500 modules, then ask the server what "Hello" is, then ask the server what "world" is, then style it all in whatever your 13 generated CSS files say it should be styled as, and tell google analytics that someone looked at my hello world page."

Re:I reject the question

[ShanghaiBill]

Also stupid is getting rid of garbage collection.

Even having a "programming language" would be stupid. An infinitely fast computer could just run a NN that was infinitely wide and infinitely deep and it would already know exactly what you want before you even ask for it.