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extensible languages

Reference

Standish, T.A., "PPL - An extensible language that failed", SIGPLAN, 6, 12, December 1971, pp. 144-5. Google

Quotations
144 ;;Quote: PPL failed as an extensible language because the base language was preserved in the extensions
144+;;Quote: goal of extensible languages was to extend a base language into a natural representation for data, operations, and control of an application
144 ;;Quote: users need a large amount of effort and knowledge to extend a language significantly
145 ;;Quote: lesson of extensible languages: no simple statement to an unknowledgeable computer can alter its behavior in major ways


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