rflynn

I've been writing non-functional programs for years.

Simple. Incentivize existing programmers to get a sex change.

Good stuff. I was playing around with ordinality of language built-ins recently and found unintuitive results for Python (https://github.com/rflynn/wat/blob/master/src/py.ord.png). As your article mentions there is a fine line between language and implementation detail.

    >>> u"" > () > "" == u""
    True

The most interesting data for me is the timeline near the bottom and it's the one thing they didn't illustrate.