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Re: What is a lightweight language

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Subject: Re: What is a lightweight language
From: Shriram Krishnamurthi <address@hidden>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 16:06:42 -0500 (EST)
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Oliver Steele wrote:

> - We couldn't figure out a way to make it possible to express downwards but
> not upwards continuations or otherwise make it easy to use one without
> leading our target audience (sophisticated application developers) towards
> traps.

How does "sophisticated" bind?  Put otherwise, was this the same
audience Arc was getting at?

What Perl, Python and Co have taught is the 5%'s don't really matter.
(Lots of them do, though.)

Shriram

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