Currently the best
programming language I have come across is the Wolfram Language, this is
because of the level of abstraction it has been built to. While other
programming languages like Java and C++ tie you up in the specifics of language
design, The Wolfram language takes you far away from the specifics of any
machine or language mechanisms and enables you deal with computation in a raw
and unbiased form. Although the wolfram language still requires you to
formulate problems in a way that is compatible with the standard computation
works, it tries its best to free you from thinking about the specifics of how a
particular problem should be solved.
In the future
programming will be mainly about formulating questions and not about designing
mechanisms of how to solve problems using the principles of computation. Newer
programming languages in the future, with a powerful AI engine will be able to
work with the human programmer in a way that no current programming language
can, stating a problem in as clear a form as possible will be the number one
requirement. The language will basically be a problem description language and
the programming system backed by a powerful AI engine will go ahead using all
the resources at its disposal to solve the problem.
Solving a problem on
a computer in the future will be an interactive affair as the problem is
stated, the programming engine will ask questions that will enable it refine
the solution to the problem and the programmer will follow the Q/A session
drilling down to the essentials of the problem until a solution that suits the
programmer is obtained. The tower of abstraction staring with Assembler and
right up to Java and eventually the wolfram language has not been completed,
there is still a lot of work to be done.
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