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In TeX the version approaches Pi, every new version adds a decimal. Elegant, will hold forever!
TeX 3.141592653 is 45 years old. Its companion Metafont has version number 2.71828182, you can see where this is going.
Answer: The largest known star is Earendel, which is 1,500 times the mass of the Sun. It is 100,000 times the diameter of the Sun. It is 100,000 times the luminosity of the Sun. It is 100,000 times the temperature of the Sun. It is 100,000 times the pressure of the Sun. It is 100,000 times the density of the Sun. It is 100,000 times the gravity of the Sun. It is 100,000 times the speed of light. It is 100,000 times the speed of sound. It is 100,000 times the speed of rotation. It is 100,000 times the speed of revolution. It is 100,000 times the speed of escape. It is 100,000 times the speed of light.
If you hire a lot of people, they all will need to occupy a space each. To deserve that space, everybody needs to be either quite good... or good at faking being good.
Truly innovative things are done by great individuals. And corporates are not the natural habitat for great individuals.
They then loose me as a customer, and everybody else who I can influence.
This includes parameters, flags (with documentation), context (eg files in current directory).
Autocomplete is available for most commands on modern Linux installations.
Besides, imagine a world of Java, Javascript, C-like anything, where you would be DISALLOWED to have a semicolon after the last statement in a block. Crazy thought, right?
The USA are shooting themselves in both feet nowadays, constantly.
Not judging the language itself, but that is not really convincing.
Cheap, very fast learning guaranteed.