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From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Build language with weak typing, then add scaffolding later to
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Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 10:17:34 +0200
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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.