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Re: Zwgc description language
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Tue Jun 6 00:29:33 1989
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 89 00:28:53 EDT
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: Barr3y Jaspan <bjaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: zephyr-comments@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, watchmakers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Barr3y Jaspan's message of Mon, 5 Jun 89 18:56:35 EDT,
Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 89 18:56:35 EDT
From: Barr3y Jaspan <bjaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Sender: bjaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
There was some discussion in the zephyr meeting about the language to
use for the new zwgc description language. I suggest a lisp-based
language, because (as I see) it offers whole lists of advantages
(sorry) without the grossness of C syntax (another suggestion.. sorry,
Marc.)
While lisp allows you to do many things that a C-like language does not
allow, it also requires a certain warped way of thinking about things?
Remember the people who swore that they spent 20+ hours on a 6.001
problem set, which most of us breezed through in less than 2 hours?
Given that those types of people are the ones who will want to program
zwgc, I really don't think this is a good idea.
- Ted
