On 02/09/2011 02:01 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"Walter Bright"<[email protected]> wrote in message
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You'd think that things like JS, Haskell, LISP and Java circa v1.2 would
have taught people that extreme simplicity/orthogonality is a stupid way to
design a language that's intended to be used in the real world. But people
keep flocking to that silver bullet anyway.
Yop! this said, I recently read (no pointer, sorry) about a possibly
interesting third way: making the core language as close to orthogonal as
possible w/o making the rest difficult, then build compromises as sugar layers
around (syntactic & semantic).
This may be, actually, more or less close to how some actual languages are
actually constructed; but I find that making this principle intentonal and
intentional totally changes the whole approach. Also think this well fits the
design of PL with a main/core paradigm/style (not so for D, probably).
Denis
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