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Designing the next language

It is not easy to design a programming language: constraints (size, speed, environment, portability), trade-offs (expressiveness, generality, efficiency).

We should be standing on the shoulders, not the feet of those who worked on these problems.

Where to look for help (shoulders, not feet).





Richard J. Fateman
Fri Aug 14 16:27:35 PDT 1998