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This is one of the best analysis for this:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/why-do-...

It is a filter strategy!

Seems they didn't review their code :-)

It would be a good idea for the OP to read the Systemantics book :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics

This book looks interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origamics

On similar lines but a bit more ironic is Robert Sheckley's: To ask a Foolish Question

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33854

The world would make more sense if you read the small book that C. Cipolla wrote long ago. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_M._Cipolla

If you install git for windows, https://gitforwindows.org/, you get a ready to go Cygwin installation of most tools you need, including bash.

But probably WSL is you best bet for a saner environment.

Find the presentation: Instantly Better Presentations by Damian Conway in YouTube from 2011. Notes are in http://damian.conway.org/IBP.pdf

It will be the best 50 min investment you can make to make you a better presenter.

But you have to use OCaml... really? :-)

How does this compare with Nim and MicroPython?

My favorite is "The Immortal":

https://matiane.wordpress.com/2019/10/11/immortal-by-jorge-l...

This blog post is a short read on the the book: https://medium.com/@dvxwang/book-lessons-the-mythical-man-mo...

A case of 'Innovator's Dilemma' perhaps?

And then you moved to use Perl...

Another case of "I like what I know and I know what I like" :-)

And don't forget regex uses!

Basic was a real bad idea to begin with...

In popular micros that came out in 1980? In 1970 you still huge expensive boxes as computers...

Imagine if they had put a Forth interpreter instead? That would have been real genius... but alas we got a crappy BASIC because everyone else had one.

Rotation group maybe? And those gauge symmetries... heck, just look into quantum mechanics operators.

Both are walking dinosaurs at this point waiting for a meteorite...

No mentioning of the classic from the 70's: Systemantics :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics

Pensando == Spanish word that translates to: thinking

https://www.google.com/search?q=translate%3A+pensando

Why not just use Nim?

Maybe they found the waters they were looking for:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Immortal_(short_story)

https://www.torindoppelt.com/teaching/phil204/borgesimmortal...

I've noticed that that a few acquaintances with the same trend... they like to take risks and optimize locally rather than globally. Not dumb but just narrow focused like most of us in technical areas.

Why not Minix 3? https://www.minix3.org/

Heck, while we are dreaming: Why not buy the rights to Plan 9 and start improving on those ideas, now that would be interesting.

Don't forget Ethernet over Power... works great on some houses and you don't need to lay out cables. But if you can nothing beats wiring the hole house.

Reminds me of Plan 9.

They provide a place to sit and use free WiFi...