Quote: a language is too complicated if a precise, readable definition requires more than 50 pages

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C.A.R. Hoare has suggested that as a rule … fifty pages. The Modula-3 committee elevated this to … useful features that we could accommodate within this … policy is a bit arbitrary, but there are … to keep a language from getting too complicated. …   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: keep a language simple by meeting a fixed, page count, complexity budget; helps prune otherwise good ideas

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