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Programming languages should be designed not by piling feature on top of feature, but by removing the weaknesses and restrictions that make additional features appear necessary. Scheme demonstrates that a very small number of rules for forming expressions, with no restrictions on how they are composed, suffice to form a practical and efficient programming language that is flexible enough to support most of the major programming paradigms in use today.

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Programming languages should be designed not by piling feature on top of feature, but by removing the weaknesses and restrictions that make additional features appear necessary. Scheme demonstrates that a very small number of rules for forming expressions, with no restrictions on how they are composed, suffice to form a practical and efficient programming language that is flexible enough to support most of the major programming paradigms in use today.
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Daphne Preston-Kendal (dpk@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 06:29:55 JST Daphne Preston-Kendal

Why I hate record types: a belated answer to @kitten_tech
Let’s first consider the opening paragraph of the Scheme reports. I truly believe the statement made by the first sentence: *all* programming languages should be designed by removing restrictions, rather than by feature piling.
I don’t think Scheme is unique in succeeding at following this philosophy, but I think it shares with only a few other languages the distinction of having achieved this goal.

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