Tapes.fm [beta] - A Music Collaboration Service
tapes.fm1 pointsby smosher3 comments
As long as our hypothetical Blub programmer is looking down the power
continuum, he knows he's looking down. Languages less powerful than Blub
are obviously less powerful, because they're missing some feature he's used
to. But when our hypothetical Blub programmer looks in the other direction,
up the power continuum, he doesn't realize he's looking up. What he sees are
merely weird languages. He probably considers them about equivalent in power
to Blub, but with all this other hairy stuff thrown in as well. Blub is good
enough for him, because he thinks in Blub.
It's my fault for trying to engage an HN-er in a form of discourse other than debate.