Languages
Most people talk about 80/20 rule for specific programming problems
But what about applying it to language design?
It's easy to design a language that lets you solve some problems easily ("little languages")
The more things your language can do, the harder the design becomes
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Yet Another Perl Conference 19101
, June 2001
The 80/20 Rule of Language Design
Nathan Torkington