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RE: Language Design

• Posted by "Kat" <gertie at visionsix.com> May 28, 2004
• 416 views

On 28 May 2004, at 1:53, Ricardo Forno wrote:

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> I agree wholeheartedly.

So is that TWO votes in favor of "goto" in Eu ?

Kat


> Regards.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Derek Parnell <guest at RapidEuphoria.com>
> To: <EUforum at topica.com>
> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 10:27 PM
> Subject: OT: Language Design
> 
> 
> > posted by: Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com>
> > 
> > This is a quote I can relate to...
> > 
> > "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."
> > 
> > http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Derek Parnell
> > Melbourne, Australia
> > 
> > 
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