OOPSLA Conference: Growing a Language
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Hand-picked by a BrighterTube curator · found via HackerTube (Karpathy's dataset of videos Hacker News recommends · 93% confidenceGuy Steele argues that languages must be designed to grow by their users, and demonstrates it by building the whole talk from one-syllable words, defining every longer word before using it; brilliant, on the Computer History Museum's channel.
What you'll learn
Guy Steele's famous OOPSLA keynote, built only from one-syllable words plus words he defines, on why languages must be designed to grow.
Video by Computer History Museum, played through YouTube's embedded player.