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I like "power." It's evocative, and it maps to the feeling you get with a good language - when your intent is made manifest with little effort, you feel powerful (and _are_ powerful).



I think these are fairly good reasons why the term should not be used. Appeal to the developer's power fantasy?


then should we aspire to... weakness, fragility, and impotence?


How about things like readability and ease of maintenance and modification? To those people making real products (and not just coding for a hobby), enabling collaboration is far more important than whether it lets the programmer feel clever and powerful.

(Hobby coding is cool and important too, but the aims are different.)


what a buzzfeed worthy comment


Is Assembly powerful?




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