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Brian Kernighan: Successful Language Design

04 Monday Jan 2021

Posted by Wyrd Smythe in Interesting

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computer language, language design, programming language

I very much enjoyed this one-hour talk by Brian Kernighan:

He’s absolutely right about small languages. Doing a big one is hard to get right.

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