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Arc and The Emperors Old Clothes
4 points by mecon 6151 days ago | 5 comments
There are two ways to desingn a programming language one is to make it so simple there are no faults, the other is to make it so complex that there are no obvius faults. -- C.A.R Hoare


2 points by fab13n 6150 days ago | link

IIRC it's rather "obviously no faults" vs. "no obvious faults".

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2 points by mecon 6151 days ago | link

Arc will hopefully fallow the first.

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5 points by ryantmulligan 6150 days ago | link

I can't decide if that's a typo or not. Hopefully yes :)

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3 points by raymyers 6150 days ago | link

It's obvius he was being ironic to emphasize that care must be taken in language desingn.

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1 point by mecon 6146 days ago | link

It's just a typeo.

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