Subject: Re: cautios question (about languages)
From: rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Date: 1999/08/01
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <7o0h8j$elp6@fido.engr.sgi.com>
Kent M Pitman  <pitman@world.std.com> wrote:
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| And what makes languages easy to use is NOT simplicity.
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Did I miss it, or has no-one yet mentioned Steele in this thread...?

	http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/wadler/steele-oopsla98.ps
        "Growing a Language"
	[Why large languages are better than small languages, and
	languages that can grow from small to large are the best.]


-Rob

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