Anyone can imagine a language as fast as C and as dynamic as Lisp — until they sit down
math_rachel · x · 2026-10-28
Part 3 of Rachel Thomas' thread quoting zetalyrae's programming-language analogy: "Anyone can imagine a language as fast as C and as dynamic as Lisp, but when you sit down and think it through, the design is contradictory. The idea was 1,000 beautiful, contradictory things at once; concrete reality can only be 1 thing." Grounds the writing-as-thinking argument in an engineering example.
Related event: 'Writing Is Thinking': Thread Challenges 'Ideas Mine, AI Writes' Mindset(4 posts)→
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