> These languages are like the little Dutch boy...

# random

[cedric]

These languages are like the little Dutch boy sticking his fingers in the dike. Every time there’s a new kind of bug, we add a language feature to prevent that kind of bug. And so these languages accumulate more and more fingers in holes in dikes. The problem is, eventually you run out of fingers and toes.

Talk about using a crappy metaphor to argue against progress