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Several security vulnerability types are due to misusing strings: command injection, SQL injection, cross-site scripting. How far could you go with a language that didn't have strings? You might need a Prose type that's a list of Unicode chars, but only use it for printing.

500 chars is an awful lot. 140 chars is too little (though I have long admired https://twitter.com/MicroSFF writing entire stories in single tweets). 500 chars is enough for me to dither over what I've written. 140 chars enables you to write and edit in a short period. That said, I'm forced to ask 'which abbrevation / grammar fault is least irritating?' regularly.

Fun footnote in Cool Ideas by Guy Steele https://youtu.be/IHP7P_HlcBk (at 9:00) Scheme would have been Schemer but 6 chars fit in a machine word!