Lambda the Ultimate

LtU readers know I tend to stress the importance of language communities and their impact on language success as well as language evolution. Thus, I feel I am allowed to point you to this sociology paper.

Aside from the humour, you might want to reflect on the applicability of the ideas presented in the paper to the notion of language expressiveness (think of the community of language constructs), and to the interaction between programmers and language constructs.

Beware: If you are new to this sort of thing, sections five and six are likely to infuriate you (or simply to sound incredibly stupid)...