by CHRISTOPHER MIMS, Technology Review
A lot of this comes down to human factors in programming languages. If they’re not easy to use, they won’t spread. In this way, languages and entire systems (like UNIX) have been likened to computer viruses. This sort of thing is difficult if not impossible to measure. It’s subjective — the sort of problem that design, not science, can solve. The fact that computer “scientists” will be those designers is merely semantic. Code is poetry, after all.
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