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OOPSLA Conference: Growing a Language
Computer History Museum
Guy Steele's classic 1998 OOPSLA keynote on how a programming language must grow with its user community. He delivers it in a playful style, starting with only monosyllabic words and defining new terms as he goes.
Treated as a must-watch for language designers, and cited whenever extensibility and language size are debated.
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