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John McCarthy's proposal for the language of the future
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stanford.edu
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115 points
by
protagonist_h
on Oct 24, 2011
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wedesoft
on Oct 25, 2011
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My favourite quote from his talk about 'Elephant 2000': "In 'Elephant' the programmer would write nothing about an array or database for storing reservations. Arrays of course would be necessary but the compiler would invent them."
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