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From: fpst@hubcap.UUCP (Steve Stevenson)
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Subject: Re: Universal OS (was Re: Survey of
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Date: 2 May 88 12:31:18 GMT
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 In article <762@l.cc.purdue.edu> cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
>The language ... should ... try to include it _all_.

You really don't want this WITHOUT a tremendous thought.  PL/I and ADA are
the obvious counterexamples.

This might be a desirable trait for some semantic/code models so that
a particular model might be easy to implement in a hurry.  But I
think history shows that when programmers are involved, there is
a fairly low complexity level which, if exceeded, makes the language
unpopular and eventually morabund.-- 
Steve Stevenson                            fpst@hubcap.clemson.edu
(aka D. E. Stevenson),                     fpst@clemson.csnet
Department of Computer Science,            comp.parallel
Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-1906 (803)656-5880.mabell