You&#x27;re doing some major revisionism with this post and claiming a lot of completely unsubstantiated (and in my opinion, completely made up) facts.<p>I don&#x27;t think Gosling, Stallman or Armstrong ever mentioned any basis in genetic science to justify their language. And seriously, think about it... It&#x27;s completely absurd.<p>I&#x27;m also not sure why you think that returning error codes is &quot;too good for mediocrity to grasp&quot;, because in the 21st century, it&#x27;s considered a very bad practice that leads to extremely unsafe coding practices, which is one of the many reasons why it&#x27;s been deprecated in most modern languages invented in this century (except Go ;-)).