Smart Languages and Dumb Parsers https://web.archive.org/web/20071229092212/http://glomek.blogspot.com/2007/12/smart-languages-and-dumb-parsers.html (on the relationship between syntactic sugar and metaprogramming)
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My 3.5yo is learning to use a mouse, and it's super interesting.
He's mastered clicks and drags, but he hasn't yet figured out lifting up the mouse when run out of mouse pad. That's a tricky case where you deliberately break the relationship between mouse and cursor movement.
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Is there any relationship between language adoption and the size of its standard library?
These days it seems completely orthogonal, but early Java adopters spoke highly of the collections library compared with C++.
Maybe it's the widespread availability of package managers?
On storing ASTs in flat arrays for performance, and the relationship with bytecode interpreters:
