5) Strange rant about lego as a programming language analogy, which boils down to much like lego, languages should have just a handful of fully understood small

5) Strange rant about lego as a programming language analogy, which boils down to much like lego, languages should have just a handful of fully understood small pieces that hurt your feet when stepped on barefooted; You must fully understand all (few) language features before programming. I think he's calling for the return of Basic Assembly Language on a S/360 mainframe, or perhaps a more RISC alternative like enterprise grade 6502 machine code. Rather, he's arguing for a modern Lisp. I've never stepped on parens while barefoot, though, so I can't speak to whether it'd hurt as much as lego.