risc or cisc

[Jonathan Lange]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Andrew Bennetts
<andrew.bennetts at canonical.com> wrote:
> Daniel Silverstone wrote:
>> On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 18:22 +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>> > I think a mini language is definitely more complex *today* but we're
>> > adding more and more methods - and the complexity of creating good
>> > abstractions is getting higher and higher.
>>
...
> Perhaps a good way
> to proceed is try to sketch out a possible mini-language and then refine
> that proposal, rather than getting bogged down in debating abstract
> concepts?

I strongly agree.

I'm also having trouble guessing at the difference between a
mini-language and the existing protocol, so a concrete example would
help a lot.

jml