something very close to my heart...
A link to those who do not know of RG:
His home:
http://www.dreamsongs.com/
a sun link: http://java.sun.com/features/2002/11/gabriel_qa.html
The 'Subject' is chapter 6 from POS. which can be downloaded from this:
http://www.dreamsongs.com/NewFiles/PatternsOfSoftware.pdf
get to page 123 or so of the PDF and begin:
"There are four parts to the theory:
Languages are accepted and evolve by a social process, not a technical or
technological one.
Successful languages must have modest or minimal computer resource
requirements.
Successful languages must have a simple performance model.
Successful languages must not require users have mathematical sophistica-
tion.
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