Re: Var-free programming (slightly off-topic)

["S. Alexander Jacobson" <address@hidden>]

I meant that they start off specialized.
They then grow over time (as was noted by others).

-Alex-


___________________________________________________________________
S. Alexander Jacobson			i2x Media
1-917-783-0889 voice			1-212-697-1427 fax

On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Dan Weinreb wrote:

>    Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 18:38:46 -0500 (EST)
>    From: "S. Alexander Jacobson" <alex@shop.com>
>
>    As a result, lightweight languages typically:
>
>    4. specialize for a particular class of tasks/applications
>
> Hmm, but most of the languages discussed at the LL conference
> were not specialized.  Many of them seemed well on their way
> to becoming more general than ever before, in fact.
>