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Wow! Nice way to look at it. Appreciate the explanation.

IIRC Kobyashi maru incident involves a no-win situation where you change the rules of the game to create a winning situation. How are we looking at a Kobyashi maru incident here? Can you explain?

The keyword is "define"!

You can just define the first turn to be Right no matter how it is oriented.

If you are not happy with that then just rotate the first segment until it looks Right to you. Then label the other turns.

If you are still not happy with the word Right to denote the first term then just make up new notation. Define the first turn to be 1. Use numbers to denote turns if you object to using Left and Right.

Exactly! I don't understand why modern languages can't make "print" simpler. Is it too much to ask to expose a print function in the default namespace?

Intriguing idea. Would have been nice if the OP included some stats and data behind the research too. Now it is just the author's word.

I am in half the mind to forward this article to some of my colleagues in the academia but without seeing the backing data and research the article will be met with some skepticism.

Great article! The diagrams look nice. What did you use to generate those diagrams?

> The majority are text-only portfolios.

Yeah... 512 KB is a lot of bytes for text-only website. For text-only sites the threshold should be much lower. Like ten times lower. 50 KB club anyone?

Can't we just deploy the Smalltalk or Common Lisp code and not make changes to the live image? Then we can deploy Smalltalk/Common Lisp projects just like we deploy Python/Ruby prjoects. Can't we?

I was looking for something like this. Which operating systems does your project support?