We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.

I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.

Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.

As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.

Odd that we think definitions are definitive.

Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, "Oh, that's a cool way to say it," and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.

It's easy to solve the halting problem with a shotgun.