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Lightweight Languages

Posted by timothy on from the just-enough-to-say-hello dept.

Denise writes: "'What happens if you get a bunch of academic computer scientists and implementors of languages such as Perl, Python, Smalltalk and Curl, and lock them into a room for a day? Bringing together the academic and commercial sides of language design and implementation was the interesting premise behind last weekend's Lightweight Languages Workshop, LL1, at the AI Lab at MIT.' Simon Cozens report, on perl.com, says it wasn't the flame fest you might have imagined."

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  1. What about INTERCAL? by mfarah · · Score: 4, Funny
    I can't believe it. They talked about Perl, Scheme, Python, etcetera. Yet they didn't invite ESR to talk about the unique problems (and solutions) that implementing INTERCAL poses.



    I sure hope next year's LL2 addresses this issue.

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  2. I make a prediction... by Snard · · Score: 5, Funny

    From the review:

    Paul Graham rounded off the talks by talking about his new dialect of Lisp, which he called Arc. Arc is designed to be a language for "good programmers" only, and gets away without taking the shortcuts and safeguards that you need if you're trying to be accessible.

    I predict that someone will later come out with a new and improved version of this language which is backward compatible, and runs 10 times faster. That language will, of course, be called Zip.

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