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by catnaroek 3183 days ago
0. There is nothing wrong with big standard libraries, so long as they are not redundant and the core language is small.

1. This is a serious criticism, but it has nothing to do with soundness.

2. There is absolutely nothing wrong with a language being designed by a committee, so long as the committee's members are all competent.

3. Back to 0.

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>2. There is absolutely nothing wrong with a language being designed by a committee

It sort of has a bad stigma, because two well-known, unloved languages were designed by committee: COBOL and PL/I.

Today, those roles are played by C++17 and C11.