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Regarding hysterical languages and aesthetics there is the school of thought that small yet very expressive kernels are the most aesthetic. I recall a discussion in the early 1980s…

Regarding ...the elements of a language are features of a world I inhabit: Environments are values floating above my head. I have an urge to glance up when I’m thinking about what’…

Scratch 3 does not enable one to define new functions only new commands. Snap! user-defined functions are first-class - they can be used to define higher-order functions.