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RE: Language design values (Re: message primitive)
- To: 'Maciej Stachowiak' <mstachow at alum dot mit dot edu>
- Subject: RE: Language design values (Re: message primitive)
- From: "Reynolds, Gregg" <greynolds at datalogics dot com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 16:13:28 -0600
- Cc: guile at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maciej Stachowiak [mailto:mstachow@alum.mit.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 3:37 PM
>
> "Reynolds, Gregg" wrote:
> >
> > implicit in other primitives. Is there a term from
> mathematics that one
> > could use to indicate a basis set has or has not been
> maximally decomposed?
> >
>
> In linear algebra one basis is as good as another. Obviously this is
> not the case with programming languages. But the metaphor is getting
> quite
> a bit overextended here.
>
True, but remember that aside from helping language designers, the right set
of metaphors comes in very handy when trying to convince management of the
virtues of Guile. What manager could resist "parsimony" and "maximal
simplicity"? Especially compared to the the promiscuity and perl. :-).
-gregg
-gregg