On the relationship between expressiveness and the need for patterns, from an interesting paper on PL expressiveness
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On thinking of books like software, treating them as evolving artifacts, and URLs versus paper book publishers: https://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Memos/Books-as-Software/
Deno has the cutest PL mascot I think I've ever seen. Are there any other contenders?
@krinkle A surprising number of PL design workarounds are "just add another equals sign" 🙃