Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right.
For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.