Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (beta-rc1) now available

[Tony Finch <dot@...>]

Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> wrote:
>
> There's an amusing syntactic difference in the functional programming
> world,

Speaking of which,

      WADLER'S LAW OF LANGUAGE DESIGN

      In any language design, the total time spent discussing
      a feature in this list is proportional to two raised to
      the power of its position.

           0. Semantics
           1. Syntax
           2. Lexical syntax
           3. Lexical syntax of comments

      (That is, twice as much time is spent discussing syntax
      than semantics, twice as much time is spent discussing
      lexical syntax than syntax, and twice as much time is
      spent discussing syntax of comments than lexical syntax.)

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Wadlers_Law

Sorry for contributing to the noise...

Tony.
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