There's an assumption that having fewer forms of abstraction, or fewer syntactic constructs, makes a language 'simple.' Certainly having to understand and choos

There's an assumption that having fewer forms of abstraction, or fewer syntactic constructs, makes a language 'simple.' Certainly having to understand and choose between different forms of abstraction can make it difficult to use a language correctly, but the absence of that kind of complexity doesn't mean the language is necessarily simple.