Pick the most expressive language that you can get. Constrain it with a coding standard. As people chafe against the coding standard, alter it as needed. The

Pick the most expressive language that you can get. Constrain it with a coding standard. As people chafe against the coding standard, alter it as needed. There is no benefit to restricting yourself arbitrarily based on what someone who isn't even involved in your project thinks. I think that most people have difficulty enforcing a coding standard. This is because they don't have a cohesive team. This is a people problem, not a technical problem. If you try to fix the people problem with technical solution, the problem will just pop up some place else.