miniblog.

> If you work on PLs long enough, you will develop a finely honed skill at creating bizarre programs like this that are technically valid but likely to trip up an implementation written by someone with a less perverse imagination than you.

Excellent discussion of verbosity (many keywords), orthogonality (scalar vs record expressions, calling conversations) and semantics (bizarre equality for NULL) in database query languages, focusing on SQL: https://edgedb.com/blog/we-can-do-better-than-sql/ (Uses 'design by implementation' as derogatory!)

I wish I'd started using autopep8 earlier. It works really well integrated into an editor. I've tried yapf but it breaks lines in bizarre places so I can't use it in a 'fire and forget' manner yet.