Tuesday, April 04, 2006
World's Most Maintainable Programming Language
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Dear Reader,
Much of our good content is appearing in blog posts these days. A terrific
example is the latest series posted by chromatic on ONLamp titled, "The
World's Most Maintainable Programming Language." In this six-part series,
chromatic explores what a truly maintainable and learnable programming
language might look like. Key points include learnability, consistency,
simplicity, and power. There's also a post dedicated to enforcing good
programming practices.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/03/the_worlds_most_maintainable_p.html>
I point out this series for a couple of reasons. First, it's a great read
and well worth your time. But also because I want to alert you to our
ever-expanding blogging community across all of the O'Reilly sites. Every
day there are new and interesting blogs posted. Maybe it's time to update
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Derrick Story
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