That they didn't give them the performance that they needed. They were complaining that the languages were taking control away from them. Who was it who was opposed to those languages? It was the programmers. Who would have most benefited from use of those languages? The programmers. Back in the early days when everything was in assembly language and the first high-level languages were being developed, Fortran, COBOL and so on. For example, it took a generation to agree that high-level languages were a good idea. So this sounds like a wild charge to make of my own profession, but I have some good reasons for saying this and I think the historical record backs me up on this. We are and most of what we think about what we do is based on emotion, and not on reason, even though we imagine it's the other way around. We think that we're not and maybe our spouses tell us we're not, but it's true. I am confident that when it arrives, we will reject it out of hand, as we always do, because programmers are as emotional and irrational as normal people. But I think a lot about what it's going to be and what it's going to do. The next language is another language and it's the thing, which is the right thing to replace JavaScript and we haven't seen it yet. Or it's Java, it's been here the whole time, no, no. It might be it's here, but I just haven't recognized it yet, but there are people who tell me, it C#. And I don't know, but I'm looking for and then I'm starting to try to understand what it's going to be. So something is going to have to have to succeed it and I've been searching for the next language, and what are the signs? How will we know when it's here? And it's sort of like waiting the Messiah, how do you know? We can't allow JavaScript to be the last language. Wouldn't it? I mean, for our kids, right,we need to leave them a better language. Because if JavaScript is the last programming language, that would be really sad. What's the language that replaces JavaScript and I really hope there is a next language. > Douglas Crockford: So, I've been thinking a lot about the next language. Transcript from the "The Next Language" Lesson
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