nostr:npub1xe588rjuszrvhk7mdsdjphvm8rjne4uau7kalapjua5l6ca2fd3sqgxg59 Zero /pol/ memes happen while programming. Richard P. Gabriel said this:

> I'm always delighted by the light touch and stillness of early programming languages. Not much text; a lot gets done. Old programs read like quiet conversations between a well-spoken research worker and a well-studied mechanical colleague, not as a debate with a compiler. Who'd have guessed sophistication bought such noise?

It's more like you talk to the machine, no ugly caricatures. (It's pleasant when the computer is nice instead of balky and obtuse, it feels wrong to install things that make the computer act that way.)