Oh, ffs. I wasn't suggesting the government sponsor a million programming languages. I was suggesting they sponsor Clojure. Now, Clojure may or may not be a

Oh, ffs. I wasn't suggesting the government sponsor a million programming languages. I was suggesting they sponsor Clojure. Now, Clojure may or may not be a project worth funding. That is a question worth exploring. But what about say, making better tools for programmers? Building experimental user interfaces? Any of a million other things you or I could be working on that are hard to translate directly into cash, yet could contribute greatly to society. Imagine being able to work on these things full time, with a steady paycheck; being able to freely share our code and discuss our work with one another, cooperating to make it better. Tell me that doesn't sound nice. Hobbyists can only do so much in their free time. Full time development only gets done when it forwards a narrow corporate interest. And then you have the free-rider problem. But now I'm repeating myself, so I'll leave it at that.