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  Guy Steele's keynote at the 1998 ACM OOPSLA conference on "Growing a Language" discusses the importance of and issues associated with designing a programming language that can be grown by its users.

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  A great talk on how to design a language so that it is useable and used.

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  Classic presentation (from 1998, with real overhead slides) - "A thought that seems to be like a primitive in our mind turns out not to be a primitive in a programming language" - vocabulary and rules - defining functions (for computers, that start to loo

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  ratbeard on 2007-12-01
  
  Pattern is way to decide some choices now, leave rest for later when designing.
  
  Guy Steele talk in 1998 about desinging languages to be growable.  Gives examples of ways sun is working on to grow java. At ~ 35 shows all the sub-types of numbers, like complex numbers, vector, intervals, and on and on.  Speaks of using generic types and operator overloading for making things look like the built in language, but a little ironic considering he's talking about java which feels extremely verbose to me.  A better example today would be Ruby.  Lisp is the king but too unfamiliar looking?
  
  Generic type is a pattern of building types.
  

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