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From: holt@turing.toronto.edu (Ric Holt)
Subject: Re: Bondage and Discipline Languages
Message-ID: <89Jan16.093619est.4327@turing.toronto.edu>
Summary: A petunia by any other name is still a petunia
Organization: University of Toronto, CSRI
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 89 09:36:15 EST

A "puritanical language" is one in which you necessarily use
only the semantics provided by the language.
	Turing proper is one of these languages.

A "permissive language" is one in which you are allowed to access
details of the underlying implementation.
	Turing Plus and C are such languages.