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Solutions perpetuate the problems they are set up to solve.



What does that say about programming languages?


Ah, I think the pithy one liner perhaps applies more to institutions.


Programming languages are institutions.


Very true and I think that applies in a wide variety of cases too. To me its telling that the recession of 1938 came shortly after FDR came out with a new plan to help "fix" the economy.




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