Daniel Wang <danwang@salomon.CS.Princeton.EDU> skrev i artiklen
<r8tg1x1a7cb.fsf@salomon.CS.Princeton.EDU>...
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> After thinking about J. O's paper it looks like what he's really talking
> about is domain specific versus general purpose langauges.
>
> Where "scripting language" = Domain Specific
> and "systems language" = General Purpose.
>
> When he talks about "gluing" I think he's really ought to say putting
> together primitives designed by someone else that are at the right level
of
> abstraction. Read with this perspective some of what he says sounds a bit
> more resonable.
Unless of course his totally undocumented (as anything in the article was
that) comment about OO languages - not that I do not agree in his opinion,
but 'opinion' is an important word that JO confuses with the english word
fact(1).
/Jesper
(1) Or maybe he is confusing it with the sentence "I'm proud of me
concept". Taking into consideration the widespread use of Tcl - he should
be, but pride makes no trues.
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