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Not to be confused (as I did initially) with Programming Pearls: Little Languages, by John Bentley. Which is about little languages per se, as this is not how
by samatman 2y ago
Not to be confused (as I did initially) with Programming Pearls: Little Languages, by John Bentley. Which is about little languages per se, as this is not how the languages in Ritchie's talk are generally described. In fact, the very first sentence describes Pascal as a "big language".
It's also worth a read: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/6424.315691 https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/6424.315691
- chrisfinazzo 2y agoRelated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnCgoEyz31M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnCgoEyz31M
- wduquette 2y agoThe name's a presumably ironical spin on the title of an old kid's book, "Five Little Peppers and How They Grew", by Margaret Sidney
- kragen 2y agoi second that recommendation, and i had the same confusion. algol-68 was even considered an especially large language
- jhbadger 2y agoAs in the mention in the article that the Algol-68 compiler for early Unix only supported a subset of the language!