From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.invalid>
Subject: Re: Build language with weak typing, then add scaffolding later to strengthen it?
Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 10:17:34 +0200
Date: 2015-05-26T10:17:34+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mk1a4m$nfj$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.CYG.2.11.1505251859520.3512@WIL414CHAPIN.vtc.vsc.edu>
On 26.05.15 01:05, Peter Chapin wrote:
> On Mon, 25 May 2015, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
>
>> I forgot Fortran. Here is the list again
>>
>> C++ : 1366 pages
>> Ada : 944 pages
>> Fortran : 675 pages
>> C : 552 pages
>> Pascal : 98 pages
>
> The size of the reference manual may (probably) says something about the complexity of the language, but I'm not sure what. It may also say something about the care with which the description was written. Many specifications are incomplete to one degree or another. Fully specifying all the fine details of even a simple language is likely to result in a longish reference manual. Fully specifying all the fine details of a complex language is likely to result in an enormous reference manual. That's only natural.
Additionally, Ada, like others on this list, would be developed
with backwards compatibility in mind. Wirth seems to have approached
the matter differently.
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2015-05-21 19:11 Build language with weak typing, then add scaffolding later to strengthen it? Nasser M. Abbasi
2015-05-21 19:29 ` AdaMagica
2015-05-22 7:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-05-22 7:42 ` Georg Bauhaus
2015-05-22 8:54 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2015-05-22 11:29 ` kalvin.news
2015-05-22 12:57 ` J-P. Rosen
2015-05-22 14:01 ` kalvin.news
2015-05-22 14:34 ` kalvin.news
2015-05-23 11:09 ` Peter Chapin
2015-05-22 15:37 ` J-P. Rosen
2015-05-22 16:29 ` kalvin.news
2015-05-22 17:39 ` Simon Clubley
2015-05-22 17:51 ` kalvin.news
2015-05-22 19:41 ` J-P. Rosen
2015-05-22 20:04 ` kalvin.news
2015-05-22 20:32 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-05-22 21:22 ` kalvin.news
2015-05-23 11:14 ` Peter Chapin
2015-05-23 12:42 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-05-23 17:48 ` Simon Wright
2015-05-25 8:34 ` Pascal Obry
2015-05-25 10:22 ` Simon Wright
2015-05-25 18:12 ` Georg Bauhaus
2015-05-22 20:39 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-05-28 22:33 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-05-29 6:56 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-05-23 12:40 ` Georg Bauhaus
2015-05-25 7:14 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-05-25 12:26 ` Georg Bauhaus
2015-05-25 18:44 ` Shark8
2015-05-25 19:54 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-05-25 21:25 ` Shark8
2015-05-26 7:46 ` Georg Bauhaus
2015-05-26 8:12 ` Georg Bauhaus
2015-05-25 20:01 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2015-05-25 20:04 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2015-05-25 20:37 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-05-26 7:52 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2015-05-26 11:43 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-05-26 15:38 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-05-28 23:39 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-05-29 8:51 ` Stefan.Lucks
2015-05-29 18:04 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-05-29 21:51 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-05-30 10:28 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-05-30 11:12 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-05-30 13:21 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-05-30 15:00 ` Simon Clubley
2015-05-30 18:40 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-05-30 16:40 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-05-30 20:52 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-05-31 8:31 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2015-05-31 8:52 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-06-04 15:31 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-06-04 17:23 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-06-04 20:14 ` Shark8
2015-06-04 23:12 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2015-06-01 21:36 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-06-04 15:22 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-05-27 13:41 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-05-25 23:05 ` Peter Chapin
2015-05-26 8:01 ` Sylvain Laperche
2015-05-26 8:20 ` Georg Bauhaus
2015-05-26 8:49 ` J-P. Rosen
2015-05-26 12:36 ` Simon Clubley
2015-05-26 13:39 ` J-P. Rosen
2015-05-26 14:21 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-05-26 16:19 ` Shark8
2015-05-26 20:51 ` J-P. Rosen
2015-05-26 17:11 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-05-28 23:49 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-05-29 21:54 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-05-29 22:32 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-05-26 8:17 ` Georg Bauhaus [this message]
2015-05-28 22:46 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-05-28 23:18 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2015-05-29 21:27 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-05-29 7:55 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-05-29 9:27 ` Simon Wright
2015-05-29 10:23 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-05-29 12:01 ` G.B.
2015-05-29 13:43 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-05-29 15:32 ` Simon Wright
2015-05-29 15:57 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-05-29 9:31 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2015-05-29 10:37 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-05-29 10:56 ` Björn Lundin
2015-05-29 12:03 ` Peter Chapin
2015-05-29 21:00 ` Shark8
2015-05-29 20:57 ` Shark8
2015-05-29 21:36 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-06-01 22:20 ` Shark8
2015-05-29 21:45 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-05-29 23:12 ` Peter Chapin
2015-05-30 9:10 ` Georg Bauhaus
2015-05-23 13:01 ` Luke A. Guest
2015-05-22 17:57 ` Simon Wright
2015-05-22 18:31 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-05-22 14:03 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-05-22 15:21 ` David Botton
2015-05-22 15:23 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-05-22 15:31 ` Bob Duff
2015-05-22 15:48 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-05-22 14:25 ` G.B.
2015-05-22 15:04 ` Bill White
2015-05-22 15:28 ` Bob Duff
2015-05-22 17:46 ` Simon Clubley
2015-05-22 18:16 ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-05-22 19:01 ` Simon Wright
2015-05-22 19:41 ` jan.de.kruyf
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