Here's something I did a while back. It seems that many languages are developed ...

Here's something I did a while back. It seems that many languages are developed because of a perceived shortcoming in another language. For fun, I mapped some of these:

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/images/LanguageFix.png

ADDED IN EDIT: I've now realised this was in response to a PG essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/fix.html

FURTHER EDIT: Now a separate submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2816526