> He made the claim that more features hurt readability (~6:10), because when you are reading you have to waste time thinking about why the programmer chose the

> He made the claim that more features hurt readability (~6:10), because when you are reading you have to waste time thinking about why the programmer chose the set of features he did to write the code. To make that kind of claim without qualifications is just ridiculous - if it were true, why add any feature to a programming language at all? Because if you didn't the programming language would never do anything at all.