Being Popular.
Title: Being Popular.
Category: /Social Sciences/Sociology
Details: Words: 7313 | Pages: 27 (approximately 235 words/page)
Being Popular.
Category: /Social Sciences/Sociology
Details: Words: 7313 | Pages: 27 (approximately 235 words/page)
A friend of mine once told an eminent operating systems expert that he wanted to design a really good programming language. The expert told him that it would be a waste of time, that programming languages don't become popular or unpopular based on their merits, and so no matter how good his language was, no one would use it. At least, that was what had happened to the language he had designed.
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Nothing is hidden from you that doesn't absolutely have to be. The language offers abstractions only as a way of saving you work, rather than as a way of telling you what to do. In fact, the language encourages you to be an equal participant in its design. You can change everything about it, including even its syntax, and anything you write has, as much as possible, the same status as what comes predefined.