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i agree with your comment. limitation is what gives rise to creativity. however, consider that one can impose their own limitations. i can restrict myself to a subset of assembly, or c.

i would guess that even with today's popular verbose languages with hundreds of libraries, most programmers only know or use a subset of the language and libraries. strangely when i try to use these languages i feel too constrained. only because i feel i am trying to fit my own thinking into some other programmer's thinking.

sometimes this seems worth it. other times (most times) not.

whereas with assembly, i only have to fit my thinking to what the computer can do. this seems like what i should be doing if i am trying to program a computer.