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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Why is it Called a Package?
Date: 2000/04/03
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Jean-Marc Bourguet <bourguet@my-deja.com> writes:

> Is there a place where language design issues is the main topic?

There is some discussion about it on comp.lang.misc, but I'm afraid it's
not usually very interesting to me, because those folks often do not
have the same language design goals as I do, so it's pointless to
discuss detailed design decisions.

The moderator of comp.compilers often allows some discussion of language
design issues, if it's related to compiler design, but he sometimes cuts
it off if he sees it as straying too far from the topic of compilers.
Comp.compilers is an excellent group, by the way -- lots of people who
know what they're talking about post there.  And the moderator does an
excellent job.

- Bob