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Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.
It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac.
In a 5 year period we get one superb programming language. Only we can't control when the 5 year period will be.
If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.