I submit that architecture may yield to Conway's Law[1]. To your point, language design may have more todo with the cohort of the original language desingers.

I submit that architecture may yield to Conway's Law[1]. To your point, language design may have more todo with the cohort of the original language desingers. That said, languages tend to add more baggage over time; does recent C resemble K&R very much? Python with full type hinting is a far cry from the 2.4 stuff I first encountered. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law