Comment on The Joys of Unix – NSA Cryptolog (1978)parentComments−pjmlp11yOn a similar note, there is the Niklaus Wirth rant about complexity as well on his ACM Turing Award speech.http://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=1283941&type=pdfTo the point his Oberon-07 redesign had as goal a minimalist GC systems programming language.[0]http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/Oberon/Oberon07.pdfhttp://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/Oberon/Oberon07.Report...[0] Too minimalist actually, as many of us might say.
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On a similar note, there is the Niklaus Wirth rant about complexity as well on his ACM Turing Award speech.
http://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=1283941&type=pdf
To the point his Oberon-07 redesign had as goal a minimalist GC systems programming language.[0]
http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/Oberon/Oberon07.pdf
http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/Oberon/Oberon07.Report...
[0] Too minimalist actually, as many of us might say.