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    1. oof teaching programming language design is super hard because i have *a ton* of opinions on whats worth even considering, but i dont want that to taint my instruction...
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    e.g. i keep thinking "here's how to do FEATURE...(except you really shouldnt ever do FEATURE tbh)" where FEATURE includes: infix operators, built in control structures, whitespace sensitive syntax, assignment, and a lot more...
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      like, i get by by *ignoring* a lot of PLT and compiler theory because i dont think those language features are worth my intellectual effort. but that makes for a very limited kind of instruction.
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        i want people to go off and build whatever syntaxy objecty mutatey language they want! but, if i dont really want to explain how to do that...
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