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Java was, as Gosling says in the first Java white paper, designed for average programmers. It's a perfectly legitimate goal to design a language for average programmers. (Or for that matter for small children, like Logo.) But it is also a legitimate, and very different, goal to design a language for good programmers.
Paul Graham (2001) "Arc: An Unfinished Dialect of Lisp." paulgraham.com, November 2001 | ||
