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Ian Bicking <bickiia@earlham.edu> writes: > Of course, the language should be designed for the person writing > the programs, not the person writing the language... but large > languages are hard for the programmer to work with too. I would agree with this, except that I would change 'work with' to 'learn'. Actually large languages tend to produce small programs, and vice versa (this idea is taken from Kent Pitman). I recall an example program that Jim Blandy wrote and posted to the list to do some CVS directory magic, that was over 100 lines. Someone posted a perl version less than 1/3 the size, mostly because perl had a lot of the needed goodies built in. This is not a defense of perl, but rather an example that I think demonstrates the point on a small scale. -russ -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footsteps of giants.