Even if you’re designing for professional programmers, in the end your programming language is basically a user-interface design. You will get much better results regardless of what you’re trying to do if you think of it as a user-interface design.
—Alan Kay on the design of programming languages. (via ACM Queue) I’ve held this belief for a few years now; it’s nice to know that one of the smartest computer scientists out there backs me up.
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