This reminds me of a passage in The BlackBox Framework about Niklaus Wirth's approach to language design: "Wirth’s philosophy of programming languages is that

This reminds me of a passage in The BlackBox Framework about Niklaus Wirth's approach to language design: "Wirth’s philosophy of programming languages is that a complex language is not required to solve a complex problem. On the contrary, he believes that languages containing complex features whose purposes are to solve complex problems actually hinder the problem solving effort. The idea is that it is difficult enough for a programmer to solve a complex problem without having to also cope with the complexity of the language. Having a simple programming language as a tool reduces the total complexity of the problem to be solved."