Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building.

Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix.

Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful.

Caches aren't architecture, they're just optimization.

Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic.

Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building.

When there is no type hierarchy you don't have to manage the type hierarchy.