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

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

Like many older fans of Free Software and Open Source, I have discovered that it is really only free in the sense that the time you spend on it is worthless.

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

Life is too long to know C++ well.

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.

Constructing a social system that tends to those who agree with it is a piece of cake compared to constructing one that makes those who disagree with it want to obey its principles.