"The key notion here is that 'time is a good idea'—we want it and want to deal with it in safe and reasonable ways." news.ycombinator.com/item?id=118085…

The 2nd half of this is a pretty good summary of what the big ideas in programming languages will be in ~10 years: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1181263

@dubroy Whoops, that was supposed to be: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=118126….