In your option, what factors make a programming language "well designed"? RTs would be very helpful. Thanks.
Like anything else, doing its job well. So the question becomes: what's the job of a programming language? I think it's to make programming easier. Pathological cases excepted, shorter programs are easier to write. So a well-designed language is one in which programs are short.
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Q is the perfect language, got it ;)
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@paulg: Would like to get your opinion on "code-less" development.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I don't think that's quite right; it's not true for human languages, and programming languages are for humans as least as much as they are for machines. Too much economy of expression trips up the mind; pauses, repetition and a little redundancy communicates better.
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Like all communication: clear and concise. With some empathy, just in case...
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Rob Pike touches a similar point here on designing Go- seems like building a B2B product : "Language Design in the Service of Software Engineering" https://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article …
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Wouldn’t you say that it’s a combination of easy and powerful? That’s what I decided to look for in tools at least. For example when we decided to use
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