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An interesting related talk, touching on the minimality and expressiveness of both natural and computer languages, is Guy Steele's 1998 talk "Growing a Language
by gojomo 8y ago
An interesting related talk, touching on the minimality and expressiveness of both natural and computer languages, is Guy Steele's 1998 talk "Growing a Language":
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0
PDF: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/steele.pdf https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/steele.pdf
Prior HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16847691 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16847691, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2359174 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2359174, & others
- fpgaminer 8y agoThank you so much for linking this. It's such a fun talk, and I've been looking for it for years but nothing I tried in Google would ever bring it up.
- peterkelly 8y agoThat's the first thing I searched for when opening this thread to see if anyone else had posted the link yet. Just brilliant.