On Tue, 2017-12-26 at 08:18 +0000, Dan Partelly via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
> 
[…]
> I believe in it in the sense that it can be used to stir powerful 
> social forces to serve propaganda. No language should be without 
> propaganda, since adoption will most likely be more modulated by 
> social factors instead of technical excellence.
> 

All of which brings us full circle: when it comes to programming
languages and software development, it is all about advocacy,
prejudice, and belief, there is very, very little science happening –
and most of the science that is happening is in the psychology of
programming, about which most developers of programming languages know
nothing.

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Russel.
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