> Some languages are simple but they're also verbose. You've probably heard people say that verbosity really doesn't matter. These people will go to great lengt

> Some languages are simple but they're also verbose. You've probably heard people say that verbosity really doesn't matter. These people will go to great length to point out that all languages are Turing complete and that in certain languages you simply have to write a bit more code. This argument I usually dismiss by suggesting moving to INTERCAL or Brainfuck. Even syntax matters a lot more than people care to admit. The best language is the one with which you can frictionlessly reason about and express a problem without impediment from syntax, paradigms, concepts and boilerplate. Computer languages just as much as natural ones are deeply tied to the way we think[0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity#Programming_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity#Programm...