the latest xkcd on my internet is about a programming language that attempts to eliminate off-by-one errors via "every time an integer is stored or read, its value is adjusted up or down by a random amount between 40 and 50". The title text clarifies that this generates off-by-40-or-50 errors instead. HOW WOULD WE MAKE THIS LANGUAGE? it's soooo zombie-like! every program we tried to write in it would fail until we learned to accommodate everything we calculated being massively wrong! well - instrument an existing runtime - patch an existing language - write a new one with the new store/retrieve semantics tried to send got: "Can't connect to Mailman's REST server, your message has not been sent." 1950 ET got this error a second time 1950 ET. pasting into gmail.