From: Chris Thomas <chris@...>
Date: 2003-07-12T06:51:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby talk from LL2


On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 9:16 AM, Mauricio Fern�ndez wrote:

> 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 :-)

Less than a year old is a bit old? I'm getting old... :-) Thanks for 
pointing out this talk, though.

> 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).

If I recall correctly, Stroustrup stated that this was an objective of 
C++ in the intro to "The C++ Programming Language."

Chris