Programming Languages' Greatest Tools

Timothy Washington

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"The greatest contribution someone could make to the programming language and compiler community   is not to make a great programming language, but to make the tools necessary for making new programming languages cheap — so cheap, that programming languages and the tools that allow their efficient use (e.g. compilers, debuggers, code-editors, etc.) become abundant."

- from The Greatest Contribution to Programming Languages

I tend to agree with this.

Posted by  on 2007.12.31| Original post

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