> we’d get new computer languages about every generation. > accumulated complexity we’ve piled on top of bad foundations OTOH when we get new computer languag

> we’d get new computer languages about every generation. > accumulated complexity we’ve piled on top of bad foundations OTOH when we get new computer languages, they usually start really simple as a sort of protest against the "old" complexity and then spend the next few decades shoehorning back in all the things they left out to keep it simple but that it turns out we actually needed.