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* goals and process for designing a language ("Dorothy")
** goals
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        GOALS

support multiple programming models:
  - minimal features to allow each model to be expressed

simplicity:
  - minimality
  - regularity
  - syntax that is easy to parse
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** process

	we will operate by consensus
	if necessary we will vote, or I will select if there's an
              arbitrary choice to be made

** parts of a language
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        PARTS OF A LANGUAGE

means of computation = primitive data + operations


means of combination


means of abstraction


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        ... procedure calls, sequencing, loops,
            container data structures

        ... procedures, abstract data types, macros