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No programming language in actual use has ever gotten smaller.
Drawn from what Andrei Alexandrescu said
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- Andrei Alexandrescu Romanian-American computer scientist
In the process, the language's complexity has increased, which is in fact a good indicator because no language in actual use has ever gotten smaller. Even languages that started with the stated intent to be "small and beautiful" inevitably grew with use.
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