i think i feel similarly about programming language design as i do about architecture. i prefer straightforward, human-scale, vernacular designs that evolve over time in response to the practical, if messy needs of people, over the masterplans of glasswall modernist utopias or imposing neoclassical pastiche. while i am impressed by the stringent engineering requirements of the steel suspension bridge or an impenetrable bunker, i could not imagine it too comfortable to live in one