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Feb 4 |
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Fernando J. Corbató's “Constrained languages” I noticed this line in Alan J. Perlis' Epigrams: "A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant." This seems to be exactly what Corbató is talking about. |
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Jan 30 |
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Fernando J. Corbató's “Constrained languages” @RossPatterson Excellent! Thank you! I was looking for an elaboration on the topic from Corbató, but I didn't find much. |
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Jan 30 |
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Fernando J. Corbató's “Constrained languages” Thank you, this answer is very helpful. This idea has interesting implications. This would seem to indicate that a programmer would want to have access to a plethora of varied languages with varying abilities rather than have one language to rule them all, which is what many programmers would like to suppose C, C++, or Java might be. |
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Jan 30 |
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Fernando J. Corbató's “Constrained languages” @gnat This makes a lot of sense. If I am doing low-level, high performance work, then malloc is going to be relevant to the program. If I am writing a log parser, then malloc is an "irrelevant idea", so using a language which abstracts away from malloc will reduce the probability of bugs. Thank you. |
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Jan 30 |
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Fernando J. Corbató's “Constrained languages” @YannisRizos Thank you very much for migrating it. I did not know that this function exists. Perhaps the more experienced users on StackOverflow could have suggested this path rather than merely closing it. |
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Jan 30 |
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Fernando J. Corbató's “Constrained languages” @jweyrich Thank you for forwarding me to Programmers.SE. However, when I go to the programming-languages tag on StackOverflow, I find a wealth of questions which are just as general as mine, such as "Is there a statically weak typed language?" where the author also makes reference to general reading materials |
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Jan 6 |
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How is IntelliJ better than Eclipse? This is a very helpful list, but you forgot to mention which IDE you are talking about. Based on your mention of version 12 in the last sentence, I guess this is all about IntelliJ. |
