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Re:No Silver Bullet (1986) [pdf] by heavenlyblue on Friday August 30, 2019 @07:07PM (#20843544)
What exactly makes Tree Language any different from the context-sensitive encoding of code in binary?
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Re:No Silver Bullet (1986) [pdf] by breck on Friday August 30, 2019 @07:44PM (#20843730)
Abstraction. Scope. (also, usability?)

Interesting question though. Can you elaborate?

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