From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2003-07-12T01:16:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby talk from LL2

On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 12:14:55AM +0900, Stefan Arentz wrote:
> 
> I found this one:
> 
>  http://ll2.ai.mit.edu/
> 
> There is a nice talk from Matz in the afternoon session. Bit old
> but still fun to watch. Good points are presented there :-)

AFAIK he introduced the concept of "brain power consumption" (now renamed
as "stress" in his last talk) for the first time. 

That was the first time (I'm aware of) somebody stated that the main goal
of a programming language isn't expressive power (possibly by being close
to natural languages, as Perl) nor ease of learning or usage, but making
the programmer happier (which is a weighted mix of all other criteria).

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