> but language designers' opinions have far more validity Here's the case we're talking about the work of a language designer. By the way, not all people capab

> but language designers' opinions have far more validity Here's the case we're talking about the work of a language designer. By the way, not all people capable of creating a programming language have created one yet. Marc-André Cournoyer, who wrote the book that Jeremy Ashkenas learnt language design from to write CoffeeScript, has not created a language himself.