I got tremendously sad when I watched Guy Steele's talk growing a language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDz

I got tremendously sad when I watched Guy Steele's talk growing a language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0 It's one of the best programming talks I've come across. For 1998, all his points on growing a new programming language are spot on. And then Java became the opposite of a lot of the goals he enumerated.