I fundamentally believe that: * The language you use defines how you attack the problem. If you use Snobol then you can only think of the world as strings. I

I fundamentally believe that: * The language you use defines how you attack the problem. If you use Snobol then you can only think of the world as strings. If you use an APL derived language then you think in terms of arrays. * If the language's core attributes really suit the problem then you get something fundamentally different. We see this with Erlang which achieves safety but (finally) acknowledging that stuff crashes so build support for recovery into the language. As someone who used to commercially sell a text editor derived product, memory management is just plain hard.