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What makes you think programming languages should mimic life?

• tvon 17y ago
  Seriously, that sounds like an absolutely horrible idea.
• petercooper 17y ago
  Life was just the first item on my list. I also said mathematics. There's plenty of precedent for programming languages to "mimic" mathematics due to being a branch of mathematics, after all. Having only one obvious way to do something is religious dogma unmatched by any similarly practical activity I can think of right now.