My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.
A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.
Programming is usually taught by examples.
I have never designed a language for its own sake.
During the process of stepwise refinement, a notation which is natural to the problem in hand should be used as long as possible.
Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. (Or, sometimes known by] Grove [the head of Intel] giveth and Gates [the head of Microsoft] taketh away.)