Re: Downwardly Scalable Systems

David LaRue <huey.dll@tampabay.rr.com> writes:                  For me,

scaling a language down is just limiting what language features you should
use in your program.

  I can see how that'd be one take on "scaling down a language",
  kinda reminds me of that quote:

|An interesting difference between "Effective Java" and
|"Effective C++" is that my reaction to the latter was to come
|up with a set of SOPs that mainly boil down to "don't use C++
|feature x".
Bjorn Borud.

  (BTW: Bjorn also wrote:

|Java books are usually about doing stuff. C++ books are
|mostly about not shooting yourself in the foot. That just
|about sums up how you use the two environments too.

  .)