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I'll just quote Antoine de Saint-Exupery here: "You know you’ve achieved perfection in design, Not when you have nothing more to add, But when you have nothing
by markokocic 16y ago
I'll just quote Antoine de Saint-Exupery here:
"You know you’ve achieved perfection in design, Not when you have nothing more to add, But when you have nothing more to take away."
- dpritchett 16y agoMcCarthy already wrote that perfectly minimialist language in 1960. It only had seven functions and two special forms. Most programmers use more than nine keywords today. http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/recursive/recursive.html http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/recursive/recursive.html