programming language implementations aren't tools, they're materials. evaluating them like tools doesn't make any sense
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@chrisamaphone spot on, but ... bog-standard devs want tools, they don't seem to mind using materials as crude tools. They'd probably happier with 4GL or the like, but they are stuck with libraries and frameworks?
I think only a minority of devs want materials, and there probably is enough of that in #Lisp or #Smalltalk or #Prolog or #Forth alone!
