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by benj111 1302 days ago
Would you (mis)use c to do text processing, or would you use shell tools?

I suppose all this leads me to the suspicion that little languages fill in for shortcomings in big languages. Big languages can absorb the things that work, this negating the need for small languages in that sphere.

Although how far can that go? Can we keep making ever bigger languages? Or at some point does it crumble under its own weight?