[Fwd: Sugar LRM -- more flaws in clocked semantics]

From: Shalom Bresticker (Shalom.Bresticker@motorola.com)
Date: Sun Oct 27 2002 - 06:03:13 PST

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    "The devil is in the details."

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    > So what happens when you want to add a feature to this type of a language. I guess
    > you are saying that you would have to recraft the full semantics. Is this statement true ?
    >

    I once heard an architect describe the challenge of designing a high-rise
    building. Suppose, he said, that you have designed a 100-floor building, and you
    want to change the design to 101-floor building. Your task is not to add one
    floor at the top. Your task is to lift 100 floors up by one floor, to make room
    for one extra floor at the bottom.

    A language is like any other complex system, you cannot add a feature without
    thinking about its interaction with existing features.

    Moshe

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