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for icon-group-addresses; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 17:17:12 -0700 (MST)
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To: Raja Mukherji <rapl_lang@yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
Subject: Re: Icon-like programming language - 2 attachments
From: Ed L Cashin <ecashin@uga.edu>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 19:11:44 -0500
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Raja Mukherji <rapl_lang@yahoo.co.uk> writes:
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> Anyway, thanks for the comment. I don't think I'm reinventing the wheel,
> meerly adding tyres to make it more useful, although I could be wrong...
I think its great. I like currying, for instance. The world is a big
place, and if nobody builds similar wheels, we will have only weak
wheel builders -- Expertise comes from doing.
There's a tradeoff with everything, and besides the expertise that the
wheel-builder gains, there are benefits to other people. A diverse
variety of wheels gives users more options, and developers get
influenced by the new ideas and the example set by the new
implementations.
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