Gilad Bracha describes the reference as to the Newspeak dictionary getting smaller with each edition in 1984:
http://www.se-radio.net/2009/07/episode-140-newspeak-and-plu...
The idea of making a language reducible instead of extensible is a rather interesting design motif.
Gilad Bracha describes the reference as to the Newspeak dictionary getting smaller with each edition in 1984:
http://www.se-radio.net/2009/07/episode-140-newspeak-and-plu...
The idea of making a language reducible instead of extensible is a rather interesting design motif.