Re: Has Lua reached perfection?

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 6:57 PM, Dibyendu Majumdar
<mobile@majumdar.org.uk> wrote:
> On 28 January 2018 at 00:52, Coda Highland <chighland@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> "Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but
>> when there is nothing left to take away."
>>
>
> I would argue that perfection in language design is constrained by two things:
>
> a) The goals of the language
> b) The limitations placed by the need for backward compatibility (i.e.
> your existing user base)
>
> So one can't necessarily take away things even if they are superfluous.
>
> Regards
> Dibyendu
>

Well, certainly so, but at that point they aren't things that remain
to be taken away. :P

/s/ Adam