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From: Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org>
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On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Leslie wrote:

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|        And, ideally, the language should also be designed with |
|programmer-friendliness, as opposed to implementor-friendliness,|
|as its primary goal; e.g. Rexx vs Perl. :-)                     |
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|[..]"                                                           |
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I consider Smalltalk versus Eiffel to be a counterexample.