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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
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Subject: Re: Build language with weak typing,
 then add scaffolding later to strengthen it?
Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 09:52:37 +0200
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jan.de.kruyf@gmail.com writes:
> On Monday, May 25, 2015 at 10:04:05 PM UTC+2, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:

>> C++      :              1366 pages
>> Ada      :               944 pages
>> Fortran  :               675 pages
>> C        :               552 pages

> modula2 revision 10 [...] 163 pages

>> Pascal   :                98 pages

> Oberon (1990 version)      17 pages

> Oberon-07                  17 pages

How much shorter would those texts be if:

1) All optional sections were removed.

2) All informative sections were removed.

3) All libraries, which can be implemented using only non-optional
   language features, were removed.

And how well would a team of student manage John McCormick's train
modeling course with each language?  (I think McCormick is still
teaching?  Can we get him to run that experiment?)

Greetings,

Jacob
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