Just getting something to work usually means writing reams of code fast, like a Stephen King novel, but making it maintainable and high-quality code that really expresses the ideas well, is like writing poetry. Art is taking away.

Very clever implementation techniques are required to implement this insanity correctly and usefully, not to mention that code written with this feature used and abused east and west is exceptionally exciting to debug.

Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer.

The aspects you are willing to ignore are more important than the aspects you are willing to accept.

Suppose we blasted all politicians into space. Would the SETI project find even one of them?

Those who write software only for pay should go hurt some other field.

Languages shape the way we think, or don't.