Readable 50 Year Languages

Dethe Elza lists language attributes and origination for some future programming language in 50 Year Language – I’d like to add to his list the simple but critical:

• Readability, from which
• Understandability, and
• Teachability (self or otherwise) lead to
• Maintainability

Readability and the consistency auto-imposed by the language are Python’s best attributes, and are not shared by many of the other languages in the Dethe’s list. I hope any future uberlanguage, the one language to rule them all, doesn’t hurt my eyes and mind when I have to read it…