It's a fact of life that leverage implies rigidity. A rubber crowbar is flexible, but useless.
Our challenge is, as I see it, to determine the minimum we need to keep rigid in order to get maximum leverage for doing the rest.
--Trygve

On 03.02.2015 14:34, Marcus Denker wrote:

On 03 Feb 2015, at 14:29, Sebastian Sastre <sebastian@flowingconcept.com> wrote:


On Feb 3, 2015, at 11:18 AM, kilon alios <kilon.alios@gmail.com> wrote:

But the more user it will get the more inflexible will become to change. That's a big price to pay for abandoning the nomad life.�

Note that, that statement, is not exactly true.

The more users it gets, the more social pressure the community will put on it.�

That happens.�

But...

Flexibility is function of design and not coupled with community size.


And it is a good problem to solve: We need to change the language to make it easier evolvable.
A very nice research topic.
(which in a second step then can be feed back into the system, making future evolution easier)

Marcus

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