every language has warts and gotchas. I judge a language by how nice its _idiomatic_ patterns are, rather than by how bad its warts are (unless there are an ove

every language has warts and gotchas. I judge a language by how nice its _idiomatic_ patterns are, rather than by how bad its warts are (unless there are an overwhelming number of warts that can't be avoided even in idiomatic code).