[reeses]

You had me at 'syntax'.

The fact that we're still typing crap into windows and calling advances along this one-dimensional path 'innovation' is pain.

Intentional[1] had a lot of promise but was too slow off the mark and now feels more like BPML, which has too much XML hiding under the covers to be good. As it stands, making solution development easier for business users has not had a broad impact on the overall productivity of developers.

'Blub' assumes existence on a continuum of language. It's a limiting concept in itself, as many of us have a different internal representation of thought.

It's sad to read about "python stuff for swift" or "haskell stuff for scala" when the only advantage of those exercises is as homework to understand the concepts.

[1] http://www.intentionalsoftware.com/