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[Icy tone] The goal in language design is not to come up with something that _works_ since any common assembler can do that, but with an intuitive structure that requires zero learning. Human languages (so-called Natural Languages) 'work fine' yet contain gross redundancy and inconsistency. De l'Go demonstrated that any properly designed computer language can, in principle, be both complete and consistent. This was in a codicil to his essential work 'The Largest Integer(s).'