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Re:Most(LY Dead) Influential Programming Languages (2020) by analog31 on Sunday December 18, 2022 @07:02PM (#34046084)
Ideally, the features needed for writing bigger codes should be optional. For instance, a beginner can write a Python script within a single screen that does something like graph some data. Encapsulation can be treated as an add-on, as can be the type system.

That's assuming you want scalability. If a language is absolutely never going to be used for scripting by beginners, it doesn't need to be used that way.

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Re:Most(LY Dead) Influential Programming Languages (2020) by zozbot234 on Monday December 19, 2022 @01:01AM (#34048993)
> Ideally, the features needed for writing bigger codes should be optional.

Newer languages like Rust, Swift and arguably Carbon don't make programming-in-the-large features "optional"; they make them as lean as possible, so that users can more easily apply them at the outset compared to older languages like Java/C#. That way even a screenful-length trivial script can potentially grow into a larger system without becoming unmaintainable in the process.

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