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by pjmlp 1149 days ago
All of them, none of them.

Point us to a language that isn't broken in some way, an example of perfection that every language designer should aspire to follow.

And then show us how that perfection has helped that language to take over the computing world.

2 comments

Every language is broken in some way, which is different from being fundamentally broken.
Which language is broken but but fundamentally? What does 'fundamentally' mean here?
Broken is broken, by definition.
A language like StandardML would come rather close.