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Growing a Language (1998) [video] (youtube.com)
49 points by pvorb on July 20, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 10 comments



I saw a live version of this when I was a grad student (not the original talk at OOPSLA, but he re-gave it a lot at some universities). It was fascinating to see what could be done with hand drawn transparencies; you have to give GLS lots of style points!


It's Guy Steele, with an e.


I know. I entered an entirely different title: "Growing a Language (presentation by Guy Steele, 1998)". I'm not sure how and why it was changed.


The 'e' thing was just a temporary typo by a moderator. The title change was presumably because "presentation by" is redundant (and not in the original).

But mostly we take the author's/presenter's name out of titles, in keeping with HN's focus on content over personalities.


May I ask how many mods are working on HN ? I naively thought you were the chosen one.


Guy Steele isn't a personality and his content is always king.


Indeed, which is why it can speak for itself.



Sorry, I didn't look for other submissions here on HN. Just thought it was worth submitting. It's likely your submission also has not been the first.


Indeed: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=growing%20a%20language&sort=by....

It was fine to repost, because it hasn't had significant attention in the last year. Also, it's one the best talks ever.




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