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Why? I haven't reached any conclusions either way because I haven't heard the facts yet. I have an open mind towards all possibilities. Isn't that what you would be looking for on a jury?

You're essentially describing a turing machine. I don't mean to be facetious and I don't have proof for this but my gut tells me by the time you make something this generic it will no longer be a "universal programming language" and will become a specification to allow for anything while failing to provide anything actually useful.

Anything more specific and you're essentially implementing YACC or some form of code generation that's already been invented and is not specific enough to be useful for this purpose.

EDIT: In my mind it's like saying we have cars, boats, airplanes, bicycles, etc. Why isn't there a platform where if we wanted we could add wings and jet engines and make it into a plane? Or instead add a horse and carriage? Or 4 wheels and a steering wheel?

Maybe you could do so, but the result wouldn't be anything actually useful because making a plane has specific design goals that aren't shared with a bicycle.

Do you think you can get Firefox on an LG TV? I don't know of anyway this is possible.

The more generic you make something the worse it is at specific goals. The more use cases you support, the more complex and harder to maintain, the more it's likely to fail. There will never be a "universal" programming language.

Imagine if you had a programming language that did "everything". Well there are people who want a simple programming language. Don't these two things seem completely at odds?

They should use a portion of these funds to setup specific task forces to dig deeper into the company and provide oversight indefinitely. $4.3B is a lot of money, you could fund an agency forever and still have change.

That's a suspicious defence. There's always a first time right?

They fired him because they made an AI that could do some basic maths. Am I reading that right?

What's the story behind this? It sounds interesting.

Vague statement. You have any more information or sources?

"Never been a better time"? What about when IE 6/7 was dominating and Firefox came out with add-ons and speed of updates? I'd argue that was the best time for Firefox.