n+1 painted itself into a corner by escaping from this failure mode of philosophy.

That's why it's biggest discernible audience-class was lower-middle to "blue-collar" grad students in architecture or design. Who knew this was a great place to learn the form=function* of the writing that they need, but not feel so strongly about it that they'd push it on their colleagues.

I think the early editors should have marketed it to compiler engineers, like a reverse-Wired

@DuaneMclemore, help me out here

*Appeal to the most discerning of [ie old money] aristocrats while being painfully aware that the writing has to distance itself from "champagne socialists"