cognitive psychology. PhD 
Yeah, reading the beginning of PG's post was kind of surreal. A nearly Wolfram-scale ignorance of related work.
“What happens if, instead of switching from the formal to the implementation phase as soon as possible, you try to delay that switch for as long as possible?” Silicon Valley finally discovers PL theory, forgetting everything that happened since Lisp.
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"All other things being equal, language A is better than language B if programs are shorter in A. (As measured by the size of the parse tree, obviously, not lines or characters.)" (see HN) This is why we still use GOTO to make our programs shorter than with IF/FOR!
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