On 24/02/2020 21:07, Alex Hall wrote:
This response honestly seems to ignore most of the paragraph that it's responding to. It being a sharp distinction doesn't matter because consistency isn't axiomatically valuable.
Actually I think it is. Or more precisely, I think inconsistency is axiomatically has negative value. An inconsistency breaks your expectation of how a language works. Each inconsistency creates a special case that you simply have to learn in order to use the language. The more inconsistencies you have, the more of those exceptions you have to know, and the harder the language is to learn. Just consider how hard English is to learn as an adult, and notice just how much of the language is inconsistency after inconsistency. -- Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd