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Ousterhout's dichotomy

name

Etymology

Introduced by computer scientist John Ousterhout.

Definitions

  1. The tendency for high-level programming languages to fall into one of two groups

    The tendency for high-level programming languages to fall into one of two groups: systems programming languages and scripting languages.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Ousterhout's dichotomy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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