Subject: [COFF] What languges would you like to learn?
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 22:13:16 +0000 [thread overview]
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On 26 Dec 2019 13:37 -0800, from lm at mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy):
> As you said, it takes a lot of discipline to use the right subset
> which makes you wonder why there isn't a language that is the right
> subset.
Probably because of the old adage "80% of the users would be just
peachy with 20% of the features; trouble is, it's never _the same_
20%". Lots of people tend to forget that second half of that.
That, and design by committee, maybe? I guess C++ is what you end up
with when _everyone_ is trying to get _their_ 20% into the same tool.
At least with Ada it seems they had the sense to know when to stop.
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2019-12-23 23:27 cym224
2019-12-24 9:54 ` thomas.paulsen
2019-12-24 16:28 ` toby
2019-12-24 16:35 ` lm
2019-12-24 17:50 `
2019-12-24 18:04 ` lm
2019-12-25 3:34 ` dave
2019-12-25 16:02 ` cym224
2019-12-25 17:05 ` thomas.paulsen
2019-12-24 20:27 ` dave
2019-12-25 17:31 ` rtomek
2019-12-25 19:13 ` athornton
2019-12-26 0:23 ` me
2019-12-26 1:54 ` wobblygong
2019-12-26 3:44 ` dave
2019-12-26 4:00 ` lm
2019-12-26 5:43 ` wobblygong
2019-12-26 11:49 ` tih
2019-12-26 15:33 ` lm
2019-12-26 16:34 ` thomas.paulsen
2019-12-26 16:53 ` lm
2019-12-27 3:00 ` dave
2019-12-27 7:02 ` thomas.paulsen
2019-12-26 17:57 ` bakul
2019-12-26 21:28 ` davida
2019-12-26 21:37 ` lm
2019-12-26 21:57 ` sauer
2019-12-26 22:13 ` [this message]
2019-12-27 3:41 ` bakul
2019-12-27 4:00 ` lm
2019-12-27 4:28 ` bakul
2019-12-26 22:16 ` imp
2019-12-27 3:41 ` bakul
2019-12-26 15:43 ` dfawcus+lists-coff
2019-12-27 17:46 ` cym224
2019-12-27 21:33 ` tih
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