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I think some of it is PLOP (Principle of Least Power).

$CFG = random() > 0.5 ? "yes" : "no";

...is likely "too powerful". It'd be nice if there were ways in certain programming languages to do something like "drop privileges" to avoid loops, function calls, external access, etc.



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