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RMS Michael Stallman at some point considered the idea of purely-interpreted userland for HURD -- banning all compiled code in fact. Because, you see, with interpreted languages you can't withhold the source.
And I can't even be entirely sure that this was an April Fools joke, because, after all, having undocumented, poorly designed and unpredictably changing internal interfaces is the official,
written policy of GCC, I kid you not. It is supposed to prevent evil proprietary enemies of Freedom from using GCC with their proprietary backends/frontends.