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by vkou 3397 days ago
No, but you also can't study 1 woman having 9 babies, and conclude yourself an expert on pregnancy. I'll prefer to get my advice from the doctor who studied 9 women, having one baby each. Note what I said about a mature language having to go through several write-eval-improve cycles.

Diversity matters. A language that one person tinkered on for thirty years is far less likely to be useful, then one that ten people tinkered on for three years. Or, in the case of Python vs Haskell, a hundred people who tinkered on it for twenty-five years.