"When I look at designer books I am sometimes puzzled why they don't share their inspiration, when it's obvious somebody had such great inspiration."

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Language designers want to design the perfect language. They want to be able to say, 'My language is perfect. It can do everything.' But it's just plain impossible to design a perfect language, because there are two ways to look at a language. One way is by looking at what can be done with that language. The other is by looking at how we feel using that language-how we feel while programming.

— Yukihiro Matsumoto