Growing a Language: Guy Steele's 1998 OOPSLA Keynote

Computer History Museum · Talk · YouTube title: OOPSLA Conference: Growing a Language

Why it's here

Treated as a must-watch for language designers, and cited whenever extensibility and language size are debated.

What it covers

Guy Steele's classic 1998 OOPSLA keynote on how a programming language must grow with its user community. He delivers it in a playful style, starting with only monosyllabic words and defining new terms as he goes.