Fancy algorithms are slow when N is small, and N is usually small.
Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination
Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building.
Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful.
When there is no type hierarchy you don't have to manage the type hierarchy.
There's nothing in computing that can't be broken by another level of indirection.