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