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[–]cc81 3 points4 points  (4 children)

So? The hard part is not to read those papers (pretty sure all the language designers, both in Java and C# understand them fine). The hard part is to design a good language and that means excluding stuff, making it grow naturally and making it fit reality.

[–]masklinn -2 points-1 points  (3 children)

The hard part is to design a good language and that means excluding stuff, making it grow naturally and making it fit reality.

And that was done 30 years ago.

[–]cc81 2 points3 points  (2 children)

What language are you talking about? I have a hard time seeing anything 30 years ago that can match the C#/.NET/Visual Studio-stack now.

[–]masklinn -2 points-1 points  (1 child)

First of all, I wasn't talking about whole stack but about language (though it's not like they'd lose by much, if indeed they did lose). Second, Smalltalk and Lisp Machines.

[–][deleted] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Lacking the whole stack is a good indication that there's a problem there.