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1: radical ideas break the patterns of your thoughts.

2: patterns are the least resistant way to think -- they are habits.

3: breaking habits is uncomfortable.

So: radical ideas are uncomfortable.




So: radical ideas are uncomfortable.

And this is why I'm writing a programming language that isn't turing complete.


> And this is why I'm writing a programming language that isn't turing complete.

That would not be a particularly new idea. One example is SQL, that makes searching through the data structures of an database much simpler than it would be if a general purpose language was used. Now SQL has been extended to be touring complete, but is not typically used that way.


Not that I want to be That Guy, but there are plenty of programming languages that aren't turing complete -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_completeness#Non-Turing-...




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