[zdean]

The focus on simplifying language reminds me of "Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity In Words of Four Letters or Less"

http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/txt/al.html

[kej]

That, in turn, reminded me of Guy Steele's "Growing a Language" [1] speech on programming language extensibility at the 1998 ACM OOPSLA conference.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0