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John McCarthy's proposal for the language of the future (stanford.edu)
115 points by protagonist_h on Oct 24, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



My favourite quote from his talk about 'Elephant 2000': "In 'Elephant' the programmer would write nothing about an array or database for storing reservations. Arrays of course would be necessary but the compiler would invent them."




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