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From: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Anyone want to design a language?
Message-ID: <2346@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 19 Feb 90 11:19:21 GMT
References: <22569:05:10:24@stealth.acf.nyu.edu>
Reply-To: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
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In-reply-to: brnstnd@stealth.acf.nyu.edu

In article <22569:05:10:24@stealth.acf.nyu.edu>, brnstnd@stealth writes:
>This is about the most formal announcement there'll be of a new, still
>unnamed language. I'll bet that almost every programmer's tastes can
>be satisfied by a single language,

You're kidding, right?

>Take C as a starting point for good ideas

You're kidding, right?. If you're going to mess around with antiquated
low-level languages like C, I don't see the point of bringing yet
another one into the world. Look at the functional languages like ML,
or the newer specification/programming languages, or the modern OO
languages like Cardelli's Quest. Or even take Eiffel and give it a
decent formal semantics.

>---Dan

		Nick.
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