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

simplicity:
 especially ease parsing the input and of implementation
  ==> regularity

generality:
 since it aids simplicity

ability to manipulate programs as data:
 to ease construction of interpreters and compilers
 to allow "meta programming"
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	want to be able to manipulate programs and data easily
		(meta-programming, genetic programming)

** 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 computiation
      = primitive expressions (data)

means of combination


means of abstraction


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

        ... procedures, abstract data types, macros