Senior programmer would know that he needs to check hashing mechanism when his custom dictionary keys were not working right. Everything eventually boils down

Senior programmer would know that he needs to check hashing mechanism when his custom dictionary keys were not working right. Everything eventually boils down to the bunch of algorithms Knuth so carefully documented for us. Learning a new language is just learning the syntax and semantics for it's mapping to those algorithms. Stop holding languages in so high regard, jeez. IT is held back by this so much it hurts. Let's just describe some sensible high-level evaluation semantics and start all compiling into that already!