>Maybe 'aninhumer has a point - restricting the language is kind of the opposite goal of making it expressive/powerful. My point was more that safety is a sepa

>Maybe 'aninhumer has a point - restricting the language is kind of the opposite goal of making it expressive/powerful. My point was more that safety is a separate, important metric of language quality. It often conflicts with expressiveness, but not necessarily. See also SPJ's "Haskell is Useless" video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSmkqocn0oQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSmkqocn0oQ