[Gllug] re: OSS CMSs

[David Damerell]

On Friday, 29 Apr 2005, Nix wrote:
>But the problem you're complaining about is that using differing subsets
>of a language that others might not be familiar with makes it harder for
>those others to understand the code.
>Surely this is true whether or not it is a good choice of language subset,
>and whether or not the subset is one you've defined yourself?

Yes. What I'm driving at is a language with few possible subsets -
like C - suffers from this problem much less than one with very many,
like Perl. Most C programmers are familiar with essentially the same
bits of the language; the same is not true of Perl programmers.

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