Five questions about language design

at 2006-11-24 in Further reading by kiesel (0 comments)

There's a nice write-up of Paul Graham with some of his thoughts about
language design.

Some of topics he talks about are:

the quality of a language designed for use of yourself vs. the quality of a language designed for use of others

good languages should allow writing things brief

languages should not concentrate on being fast, but instead give their users tools to find bottlenecks in their application

You Need an Application to Drive the Design of a Language

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