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From: jgk@panix.com (Joe keane)
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Subject: Re: Have we reached the asymptotic plateau of innovation in programming language design?
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Torben Fgidius Mogensen <torbenm@diku.dk> wrote:
>A programming language should primarily be easy to read (parse) by a
>human reader and only secondarily be easy to parse by a computer.

yay!