I think that falling back to the lowest common denominator is an immense cause of complexity in software, and holds us back back. I think we'd be much better of

I think that falling back to the lowest common denominator is an immense cause of complexity in software, and holds us back back. I think we'd be much better off if we didn't optimise for "person who wants to write a CLI in haskell who is using an 18 year old version of bash that only runs on Plan9"