[Gllug] OSS CMSs

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Thu Apr 28 21:28:55 UTC 2005


On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Doug Winter spake:
> Richard Jones wrote:
>> I don't understand this.  I'm assuming that you don't mean that
>> programming languages should have every possible and foreseeable
>> technology built in as primitives.
> 
> Not every possible and forseeable one, sure, but pretty much
> everything you would ever want to use, why not?

Because there are thousands of such things? Probably more?

(I agree with Richard, of course: there's no need for more than a tiny
set of primitives and a decent macro system. No, *not* CPP.)

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