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[โ€“] Primarily0617@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

powerful isn't the same as well-structured

it was written to be a language that anybody could read or write as well as english, which just like every other time that's been tried, results in a language that's exactly as anal about grammar as C or Python except now it's impossible to remember what that structure is because adding anything to the language to make that easier is forbidden

when you write a language where its designers were so keen for it to remain human readable that they made deleting all rows in a table the default action, i don't think "well structured" can be used to describe it

[โ€“] GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Disagree, the difference between "week structured" and needing to know the rules of the verbs is pretty big, to me.