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**Published on Jul 15, 2012**
Guy Steele's keynote at the 1998 ACM OOPSLA conference on "Growing a Language" discusses the importance of and issues associated with designing a programming language that can be grown by its users.
ACM OOPSLA conference
Speaker: Guy L. Steele Jr.
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