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A 16 year old school boy develops a programming language for Web : News : Students : BCS

Patrick Collison, from Limerick, was given the title of Irish Young Scientist of the Year in 2005 beating off over a hundred other entrants

First off, what an unfortunate use of words, poor kid.

Anyway, why should we give someone an award for adding yet another stupid language to the confusing development environment we call the web? I’d kinda thing that CSS, Web 2.0, Ruby, Rails, PHP, Python, Perl, .NET, ASP, Cold Fusion, Flash, Java, Javascript, and about 80 dozen other languages were enough. Sheesh.

Besides, anyone can write a language and someone has, on average once a week since Fortran was released.