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And yet somehow they managed to ignore the majority of what has been learned in the last several decades of language design progress.

• grzm 9y ago
  Given their experience, I strongly suspect they made the choices they did knowingly, rather than out of ignorance.
  • mcguire 9y ago
    These two comments are not mutually incompatible. There is also a reason I've been heard to say that Not Invented Here syndrome was invented at Bell Labs.