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Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> writes:

> I tell you what, design this next language, and I'm on board. 

I think I'm competent to design the language.  What I don't know how to
do is get people to use it.

I suspect that to make a *popular* language these days, you have to make
it look like C (yuck), and you have to have enough money to generate
large amounts of hype.  Sigh.

- Bob