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Some Comments on Programming Language Design

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Programmiersprachen

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I find myself in the awkward position of talking about programming language design, without ever having designed a language myself. True, I have thought about the design of various “features”, but this is vastly different from designing a complete, unified language.

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  1. Cornell University and Technical University Munich, Germany

    David Gries

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  1. Institut für Mathematische Maschinen und Datenverarbeitung(II), Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Egerlandstr. 13, D-8520, Erlangen, Deutschland

    Hans-Jürgen Schneider  & Manfred Nagl  & 

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Gries, D. (1976). Some Comments on Programming Language Design. In: Schneider, HJ., Nagl, M. (eds) Programmiersprachen. Informatik-Fachberichte, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66319-2_21

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