Warning: I'm about to get all opinionated on you. This "programming sucks" thing could get old quickly. Most of the problems mentioned in these articles are a

Warning: I'm about to get all opinionated on you. This "programming sucks" thing could get old quickly. Most of the problems mentioned in these articles are already solved in some language or another. And many of them are too specific. Like wouldn't it great to eliminate for loops? Well, yes, for the specific cases where the alternative would work. More pressing problems include lack of a REPL as a primary development environment, no decent way in most languages to organize and update libraries in a seamless manner without breaking anything, no good way for multiple programmers to collaborate in real time, lack of run-time interactivity and in-place replacement of components of a running program, etc. In other words, I applaud your motivation, but if you want to reinvent programming, please don't reinvent Lisp, Prolog, or Haskell. It's just syntax, and that's been done to death. Reinvent Smalltalk and Erlang instead. Edit: By the way, Microsoft Excel has many of the features these blog posts talk about. Type in Jan, Feb, Mar, then draw a box around those and drag to the right. Magic! However, the utility of these things in a small number of cases doesn't mean the idea can scale to a more general solution. The same idea in MS Word is the awful numbered list creator that never does what you want. I think you'll run into those edge cases much more quickly than you think. And now, as a programmer, I don't just have to remember foreach..., I have to remember 1500 different ways to iterate through a list. I'd much rather have the general foreach tool and write my own "pairs" function. It takes one minute.