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Entries tagged with language design
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Title: Spoken Languages, Blub, and Convenience
Tags: language design thoughtsA brief essay considering the link between spoken languages and programming languages and Paul Graham's theory of Blub.
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Title: Opinionated Programming Languages, The Huddled Masses, and Elitism
Tags: community java language design schemeThe Language For Smart People and Language For Masses dichotomy is one that leaves a queasy feeling in my stomach. Just because a distinction has become accepted by the community doesn't mean it is a valid one.
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Title: Failure of Implicit Conventions: Determining Function Destructiveness
Tags: functional language designThe distinction between destructive and non-destructive methods is important, but most languages rely on unwritten convention to differentiate one from the other. We need to do better than this.