I think much of the motivation for developing new paradigms stems from growing frustration with tool-induced blindness, for lack of a better term. We spend much

I think much of the motivation for developing new paradigms stems from growing frustration with tool-induced blindness, for lack of a better term. We spend much of our time chasing that seg-fault error instead of engineering the solution to the problem we're trying to solve. A new programming paradigm allows us to reframe a problem in a different space, much like how changing a matrix's basis changes its apparent complexity, so to speak. The ultimate goal, I think, is to come up with a paradigm that would map computational problems, without loss of generality, to what our primate brains would find intuitive. This lowers our cognitive burden when attempting to describe a solution, and also to allow us to see clearer what the cause of a problem may be. For example, if you're a game developer, and you find some rendering problems due to some objects intersecting each other, but you're not sure where it happens, Instead of poring over text dump of numerical vector coordinates, it'd be better to visualize them. The abnormality would present themselves clearly, even to a layman's eyes. I suspect this is what Victor is trying to get at. Imagine, if you will, that you have a graphical representation of your code, and a piece of code that could potentially segfault shows up as an irregularity of some form (different textures, different color, different shape, etc), so you can spot them and fix them right away. The irregularity is not a result of some static error analysis, but is instead the result of some emergent property resulting from graphical presentation rules (mapping from problem space to graphic space). We're good at spatial visualization, so I wonder if it's valid to come up with a programming language that would leverage more of our built-in capability in that area. This may seem like wishful thinking or even intractable (perhaps due to a certain perception limitation...which we have to overcome using more cognitive resources), but I certainly hope we'll get there in our life time.