You beat me to it. > The most popular programming language in computer science has no compiler, interpreter, or complete specification. It is remarkably concis

You beat me to it. > The most popular programming language in computer science has no compiler, interpreter, or complete specification. It is remarkably concise. It grew over decades; today, dozens of variations are in use. Its complexity has reached the point where it needs to be re-explained every time it is used—but too often it is not; instead, each variant is more or less taken for granted. This has led to ambiguities and inconsistencies. Much effort has been spent in hand-translating, in both directions, between this language and other languages that do have compilers, primarily for the purpose of implementing yet other languages. => https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Steele https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Steele Guy Steele => https://www.codemesh.io/codemesh2017/guy-l-steele https://www.codemesh.io/codemesh2017/guy-l-steele "A Cobbler's Child" talk at Code Mesh 2017 => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNPlDnX6Mio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNPlDnX6Mio "A Cobbler's Child" (video on youtube) => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCuZkaaou0Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCuZkaaou0Q "It's Time for a New Old Language" (video on youtube) => https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15473199 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15473199 Discussion on HN => https://labs.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=94065:40150:0::::P40150_PUBLICATION_ID:5376 https://labs.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=94065:40150:0::::P40150... Slides To me this seems like a pretty sorry state of affairs. The folks trying the hardest to speak precisely about the most precise human art use ambiguous and inconsistent notation. wat?