> Knowing that certain powerful features of programming languages can be used to create unmaintanable code, do we ban those features or do we try to harness the

> Knowing that certain powerful features of programming languages can be used to create unmaintanable code, do we ban those features or do we try to harness them by using a disciplined approach to software design? I don't have any example were the disciplined approached worked so I would agree with the first option. People overused every single bad feature, here it's Lisp but it's the same in Php, Perl, Javascript or Python.