On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Bill Baxter<[email protected]> wrote: > > Seems to me like popularity of languages tends to precede detailed > specifications generally. > Having a 100% complete spec has merits I'm sure but it doesn't really > correlate much with language adoption as far as I can tell. Having a > language and tool chain that work well and make life easy for > programmers seems to have much more importance. Is this incorrect > from what you've seen?
It's not incorrect. I'm just saying that rigorously specifying the language can certainly go a long way to making a solid compiler, and therefore a better toolchain.
