By way of summary, let’s try describing the hacker’s dream language. The dream language is clean and terse. It has an interactive top level that starts up fast. You can write programs to solve common problems with very little code. Nearly all the code in any program you write is code that’s specific to your application. Everything else has been done for you. The syntax of the language is brief to a fault. You never have to type an unnecessary character, or even use the Shift key much. Using big abstractions you can write the first version of a program very quickly. Later, when you want to
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