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Article #5099Little vs. Large Languages
From: Bjorn Freeman-Benson
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1988 19:28
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1988 19:28
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I see the problem as more of a continuum between everything being a
little language and having only one huge language. Never approach
is "right" --- perhaps there are one or more points in the middle
where people would be happy.
UNIX is an example of system with a number of little languages:
AWK, GREP, SORT command line, ...
and a couple large ones:
C, LaTeX/TeX, troff, ...
The MacIntosh has completely Huge languages:
each application has it's own
Perhaps a smaller set of languages and a computing environment to
help hook them together would be possible. I claim that there are a
small finite number of types of computing:
text processing
numeric processing
database lookup
graphics
others?
Granted, these are inter-related, but perhaps we could form a
moderate langauge for each, and provide a good environment to work
with them.
Ack. I've gone on long enough. If this article generates any heat
(or light), I'll post some more ideas.
Bjorn N. Freeman-Benson
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!uw-june!bnfb From: bnfb@june.cs.washington.edu (Bjorn Freeman-Benson) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Little vs. Large Languages Message-ID: <4096@june.cs.washington.edu> Date: 28 Jan 88 19:28:04 GMT References: <3928@ames.arpa> <2400001@otter.HP.COM> Reply-To: bnfb@uw-june.UUCP (Bjorn Freeman-Benson) Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle Lines: 29