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Re: Reply to Ousterhout's reply (was Re: Ousterhout and Tcl ...)

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Subject: Re: Reply to Ousterhout's reply (was Re: Ousterhout and Tcl ...)
From: sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor])
Date: 09 Apr 1997 08:42:28 +0200
Organization: Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut, Kakerlakenzuchtverein
>>>>> "Smiljan" =3D=3D Smiljan Grmek <Smi@4mate.hr> writes:

Smiljan> Is it possible that languages with bumps and rough surfaces are so=
mehow
Smiljan> easier to remember and decode when reading than quicksilver smooth
Smiljan> theoretical ones? Is it perhaps easier to interpret an ad-hoc cons=
truct
Smiljan> than to reconstruct semantics from first principles?

No.

Anyone who has to read and write production code in Perl or Tcl or C++
within the same period as, say, Scheme, can testify to that.

-- 
Cheers =3D8-} Mike
Friede, V=F6lkerverst=E4ndigung und =FCberhaupt blabla

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