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Jul 25, 2011 at 21:59
"I put in what I hoped would be power enough for real programmers to finish the job. That's why I made everything malleable." Eich on JS

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Mar 7, 2023 at 08:03
Software is typically malleable. What software is the hardest to change? For me, the obvious cases are APIs near the bottom of the stack (e.g. imagine changing a Linux syscall) or systems with a large number of users (due to Hyrum's Law).