[geocar]

> If you're gonna make a website for your programming language, you NEED to put an example of the language front and center on the landing page.

Did you consider the possibility that this sort of thing was done to avoid wasting time with non-experts who think an "example" of a language they don't know is enough to make comments about?

> I still have not seen a line of TAL

My suggestion: Start with the "Papers" and then look at the paper that introduces TAL. It has an example program with analysis

[makerofthings]

I’m an expert and I find it very frustrating when I don’t find some example code front and centre. It might not reveal the detail, but it sets the scene quickly and lets me know what sort of a thing I’m dealing with.

[geocar]

> I’m an expert and I find it very frustrating

So you say, but I think _I'm_ an expert too, and I wasn't frustrated in the slightest. Maybe you're just not an expert in this space. Did you consider that?

Of course it would be nice if everyone communicated to us in our preferred way, but I think making the reader work a little bit before they have a conversation is a good way to figure out if you're dealing with an expert or not, because an expert actually worth talking to about your ideas will not find it to be too much work to understand them

Students can especially benefit from this advice, because they are still too new to be able to recognise experts from the substance of their words