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		raincole on March 25, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How big should a programming language be? Technically it's true. But Lisp-like language (e.g. Scheme) is so minimal, to a point that everyone basically invented their own DSL inside it to get the jobs done. And the you ended up with a minimal language... and several sub-languages.

smitty1e on March 25, 2023 | [–]

So The Famous Article seems a binning of functionality against three areas: (a) language core (b) standard library (c) real-world problem space.

Functionality moves (c) => (b) => (a).

Unless it's a DSL, the osmotic power is strong.

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