From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: michael at kjorling.se (Michael =?utf-8?B?S2rDtnJsaW5n?=) Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 22:13:16 +0000 Subject: [COFF] What languges would you like to learn? In-Reply-To: <20191226213703.GN3839@mcvoy.com> References: <9DDB7EE9-8E8E-4083-BB36-B15CD784FC3C@pobox.com> <20191226213703.GN3839@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: 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. -- Michael Kjörling • https://michael.kjorling.se • michael at kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”