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I think this is a pretty great analysis of what's wrong with modernism(Which is unfortunately coming back), the part I disagree with is programmer creativity and "There is more than one way to do it" thinking.

The current crop of popular languages does it really well. They aren't designed starting from any kind of simple theoretical construct like stacks or lisps or machine code, but they do always watch your back and prevent many unsafe(Unsafe in the sense that they allow common mistakes that are hard to detect automatically) constructs, while providing equally easy constructs.

A lot of the value in moving away from modernist thinking is that you actually have fewer concepts to work with. In programming, the usual goal of minimalism is to let you build exactly what you need.

Since you're building it yourself as you go, the language effectively has every imaginable feature, minus any syntactic sugar for any of them. I suppose that's where the idea that all projects eventually include half of common lisp comes from.

Perl's rich but predefined set of language and syntax features was a wonderful advancement, but other languages have since combined that with a lot more safety and opinionatedness.