> I don't understand how "suitability for teaching" and "suitability for industry" differ Industry is made up of people who have by necessity cultivated a pati

> I don't understand how "suitability for teaching" and "suitability for industry" differ Industry is made up of people who have by necessity cultivated a patience with excessive complexity. In particular, I suspect that many unnecessarily complex or counterintuitive language features arise in imitation of what the designers have learned to live with in other languages, even as their focus is on "improving" some aspect that they think is important for industry. If you did design a language which favored learnability at every opportunity you might not end up with something that flattered everyone's preconceived notions of what is suitable for industry, either. I hesitate to name examples here, as there is a significant risk of trolling...