We are indeed talking about humanity. Apparently the human condition also includes taking the easy way out at the cost of long term pain. I was inspired to wri

We are indeed talking about humanity. Apparently the human condition also includes taking the easy way out at the cost of long term pain. I was inspired to write this post after reading about people trying to design better programming languages. I realized that PL design hasn't fixed our problems in the past, and it probably won't fix it in the future. We muddle through by improving our tools and processes.