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gojomo on March 7, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: What's the minimum number of words you'd need to d...

An interesting related talk, touching on the minimality and expressiveness of both natural and computer languages, is Guy Steele's 1998 talk "Growing a Language":

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0

PDF: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/steele.pdf

Prior HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16847691, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2359174, & others

peterkelly on March 8, 2019 | [–]

That's the first thing I searched for when opening this thread to see if anyone else had posted the link yet. Just brilliant.

fpgaminer on March 7, 2019 | [–]

Thank you so much for linking this. It's such a fun talk, and I've been looking for it for years but nothing I tried in Google would ever bring it up.

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