I have never designed a language for its own sake.

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.

Our ultimate goal is extensible programming. By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system.

Programming is usually taught by examples.

Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.

But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.