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From: mdg@smegma.UUCP (Marc de Groot)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Universal OS (was Re: Survey of
Message-ID: <380@smegma.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 88 06:41:25 GMT
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Reply-To: mdg@smegma.UUCP (Marc de Groot)
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In article <2845@mmintl.UUCP> franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) writes:
>The problem with this is that the more things you throw into a language, the
>harder it is to write a compiler for it.  And harder, when it comes to
>software, means it takes longer.

*UNLESS* you are working with an extensible language, in which case adding
features and constructs adds nothing to the implementation of a compiler or
interpreter or what-have-you.
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