From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
Subject: Re: Direct Quote from the RM
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:41:01 +0100
Date: 2007-11-19T23:41:01+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sl31yi2q.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: fht04o$hp$1@jacob-sparre.dk
Randy Brukardt writes
> The introduction is just a list of "good" properties which really doesn't
> mean that much and has no bearing on the requirements for implementations
> and users. Pretty much every programming language has a version of these
> same goals. After all, can you imagine a programming language saying that it
> was designed to make unreliable programs with no regard to efficiency? Who'd
> use that?
Malbolge and INTERCAL come to mind :)
And yes, there are people "using" these languages, for some weird
definition of "use" :)
--
Ludovic Brenta.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-19 22:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-17 21:22 Direct Quote from the RM anon
2007-11-18 7:07 ` Simon Wright
2007-11-18 9:43 ` anon
2007-11-18 12:57 ` Markus E L
2007-11-19 0:16 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-11-20 13:43 ` anon
2007-11-20 15:10 ` parallel translation (was: Direct Quote from the RM) Georg Bauhaus
2007-11-20 18:47 ` parallel translation Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-11-20 19:48 ` Samuel Tardieu
2007-11-21 0:09 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-11-20 20:26 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-11-20 17:07 ` Direct Quote from the RM Vadim Godunko
2007-11-21 6:44 ` anon
2007-11-19 21:48 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-11-19 22:41 ` Ludovic Brenta [this message]
2007-11-19 21:48 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-11-19 21:48 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-11-20 12:32 ` anon
2007-11-20 16:21 ` Adam Beneschan
2007-11-21 3:14 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-11-21 8:03 ` anon
2007-11-21 3:01 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-11-21 3:01 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-11-26 18:23 ` Adam Beneschan
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