Reminds me of the pg essay on Lisp, where he points out that, if you use a lower powered language, you simply don't know what you're missing in the higher power

Reminds me of the pg essay on Lisp, where he points out that, if you use a lower powered language, you simply don't know what you're missing in the higher powered languages. You think those features are useless because you can't imagine using them, and you can't imagine using them because they are impossible to express coherently in the language in which you think.