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Then how do you improve?

Currently there is no all encompassing theory for the design of languages or anything. So there's no prove-able way to design a language that can always be improved and always be backward compatible.

I imagine that such a language would be incredibly simple. Minimal syntax and all sugar and conveniences would be built with libraries.



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