Rewarding incompetence and ignorance increases the number of incompetent programmers. Designing programming languages and tools so incompetent programmers can feel better about themselves is not the way to go.

— Erik Naggum, Re: New Lisp ?

Source: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.functional/msg/b69c767370ee7c43

From a Usenet article.

Topics: software design