RE: Language Design
I agree wholeheartedly.
Regards.
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From: Derek Parnell <guest at RapidEuphoria.com>
To: <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: OT: Language Design
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> posted by: Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com>
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> This is a quote I can relate to...
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> "There is one thing more important than brevity to a hacker: being able
> to do what you want. In the history of programming languages a
> surprising amount of effort has gone into preventing programmers from
> doing things considered to be improper. This is a dangerously
> presumptuous plan. How can the language designer know what the
> programmer is going to need to do? I think language designers would do
> better to consider their target user to be a genius who will need to do
> things they never anticipated, rather than a bumbler who needs to be
> protected from himself. The bumbler will shoot himself in the foot
> anyway. You may save him from referring to variables in another package,
> but you can't save him from writing a badly designed program to solve
> the wrong problem, and taking forever to do it."
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> http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html
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> Derek Parnell
> Melbourne, Australia
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