@slava@steve looking back to BASIC, FORTH, LISP, and Smalltalk, perhaps it was when we started treating a "programming language" as separate from the "operating system" that we started straying from the light
@joe@slava@steve fighting similar intrusive thoughts to throw my 11-year-old programming language project away because "wow, this should not require a runtime nor a heap allocator to function if I am going to use this to rebuild civilisation on a microcontroller"
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