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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping
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Wes Groleau <groleau+news@freeshell.org> wrote:
 
: Ah, but a language that is ten times more productive
: still can't compete with one that has a hundred times
: as many developers.

Hmm... This leaves out the effects emerging from the
number of links in a larger network.
They might grow exponentially, analogous to self-administering
administrations.