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> See all those people who are on the endless quest for the "perfect" language

To be fair, many programming language enthusiasts understand this and seek languages that properly frame the problems that need to be solved.

Sometimes languages seem to have a high cognitive cost because they expose that the underlying problem has a high cognitive cost. Some things that seem really simple are actually rather complex, like string manipulation and data sharing.



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