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From: Robert*@ <Robert_member@newsguy.com>
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Subject: Re: is Ada dying?
Date: 9 Oct 2001 07:38:48 -0700
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In article <3BC2F035.FB6AA434@brighton.ac.uk>, John says...
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>Smalltalk and Forth are both syntactically simpler languages than Java,
>both with large APIs. That doesn't make them better than Java.
>

Yes. being just simple language does not mean it is better.

>Huge libraries means you need a huge memory,

No it does not mean that at all. Do you really think the JVM loads into
memory all the classes in its path??

> and a permanently-handy API reference. 

I am confused.  

Are you saying a small standard library which does almost nothing, is 
better becuase then the programmer does not have to have an API handy
to remember anything?

what kind of logic is this? 

so I assume the language you will design will have only 'PUT' and 'GET' in
it, this way no programmer will ever need a manual to use it (and of course
no one will use the language becuase in the real world programmers need to 
do more things).