The Ultimate Act of Hubris?
Posted by Daniel Lyons Fri, 28 Sep 2007 08:59:00 GMT
In a sense, isn’t writing a language in itself the supremely audacious act of intellectual hubris?
“Behold, my language. You want my language so badly, you’re already going to have my language around to compile it in. My language is best for a variety of tasks—for example, see how well it works for that most important and complex of tasks, implementing my language? Don’t you want to use my language for your next project? Especially considering how much effort and hard work I donated to the world, making my language and then implementing it? Bearing in mind as you decide that my language is better than any predecessor language, because it builds on their strengths without their weaknesses? Did I mention my language is a mathematical formalism? Yeah, it is.”
Heh. Which prof does that sound like? :)