Immutable things.

Marcus G. Daniels marcus@cathcart.sysc.pdx.edu
13 May 1997 11:10:28 -0700


>>>>> "KM" == Kelly Murray <kem@Franz.COM> writes:

KM> That said, a simpler dialect makes LEARNING the language easier,
KM> and that IS still important today. 

And not just learning the language, for a free software project,
learning how the implementation is put together is also very
important.  Small interpreter + compiler + libraries can scale more
easily across several part time maintainers than a larger, perhaps
more-integrated system.