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@Sierra_OffLine they help shape the overall narrative. there are movements, schools of thought, language families that you can maybe glean
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@Sierra_OffLine influence is super important, as is time, e.g. designer X couldn’t have known about algorithm Y when lang Z was being made
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@Sierra_OffLine or e.g. “why does Objective-C look the way it does?” because larry cox saw Smalltalk a few years before starting work on it…
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@Sierra_OffLine the missing dimension is humans and institutions. who made the languages? did they know each other? did they work together?