"Programming languages should really be called notations in that learning one is not at all as difficult as learning a natural language." Brilliant! This whole

"Programming languages should really be called notations in that learning one is not at all as difficult as learning a natural language." Brilliant! This whole section on choosing a language is great. "One tends to think of a large system that has components in three or four languages as a messy hodgepodge; but I argue that such a system is in many cases stronger than a one-language system..." This part sounds insane until you start working with eventually consistent messaging like: http://www.reactivemanifesto.org http://www.reactivemanifesto.org