> The things you described are features, right? Right, they provide additional structure that can in turn help someone express themselves. But you're right, t

> The things you described are features, right? Right, they provide additional structure that can in turn help someone express themselves. But you're right, the complexity can obscure some underlying simplicity. I suspect that the solution is to disentangle the two: to help programmers understand the computational model independent of the language. > it also covers the model of computation itself eval/apply is what I'd consider the model of Lisps, rather than chainable action perimeters. The two are linked, of course, former depending on the latter. I guess you probably mean roughly the same thing by it, so I'm not disagreeing, just saying what I was thinking of. I agree, the von Neumann model of computation is not necessarily useful if programmers believe it is the only model. But I think it is crucial for programmers to understand. OP = original post (i.e. the article on your site).