Jonathan Blow
On The Metal
Programming Languages
Jonathan is a math constrator not a computer science constrator so you might not have gone through this kind of youthful experimentation with operator overloading which is what Jonathan is and it's where you because the first time you discover operator overloading it just seems like awesome. But then at some point you would need to realize that actually this is not made it easier to solve hard problemsYeah but I would even go more general than that that we had all these kind of very managed languages at that time right so like you know tickle there you go that's in the extreme where like everything is a string all the time and tickle programs never would work two months later by the way tickle is alive
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