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Re:List of 4,248 open source programming languages by ncmncm on Friday December 24, 2021 @08:45PM (#29679545)
Law: Only an idiot thinks anybody else will use their new language.

Corollary: All languages are created by idiots.

We have been very lucky that a few languages created by such idiots have turned out to be usable. I doubt the ones that happened not to fizzle would have been the best a priori choices, but by the Law we are lucky that any are usable at all.

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