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Thu, 11 Sep 2003
Growing a Language
Carlos
has discovered Guy Steele's OOPSLA '98 invited talk, Growing a Language.
One of my favorite quotes:
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My point is that a good programmer in these times does not just write programs. A good programmer builds a working vocabulary. In other words, a good programmer does language design, though not from scratch, but building on the frame of a base language.Go read the rest, and then think about whether Java, C#, Python, Ruby and Perl are languages (and communities) designed to grow.
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