syntax is for people, so denigrating language designers who focus on syntax and 'dumb, experimental ideas of little importance' seems to me to be denigrating what I see as the main object of language design: to make programs easy to understand for both the writer and future readers (and incidentally for the machine itself).
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Exactly...
Date: 2004-11-10 10:45 pm (UTC)