[waffletower]

"(O)ther well-known developers are now writing code in languages they don’t know. It’s as striking as a Poet Laureate of the United States writing poetry in a language they don’t speak" This statement ought to be embarrassing to the author, but unfortunately the brazenness of this statement shows how far The Humanities have declined in attention for our culture. Let's try this as taking the poetry approach is probably hopeless -- I have never written any Haskell. I have lived in Japan for 5 1/2 years. I can read and understand Haskell far more than I can Japanese. Programming languages are far far far smaller and less complex than natural languages, and share many characteristics among them, despite their differences.