I don't design myself. I evolve from countless interactions, of which the conscious mind is but the emerged part, that neither designs nor builds itself nor the rest of me. At best, it might steer me towards improvement - but the direction it steers won't be improvement if it is blind of who I am, where I am, what are the obstacles, what are my ( Read more... )

If you neglect some aspect of computation in designing your programming language, then the people who actually need that aspect will have to spend a lot of time dealing with it by themselves; and if you don't let them do it by extending your language, they'll have to do it with inarticulate barkings rather than civilized sentences.
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