But the principle also applies to the other way around: if the programming language is too "simple", complexity still arises, because you have to explicitly wri

But the principle also applies to the other way around: if the programming language is too "simple", complexity still arises, because you have to explicitly write into the code many things that a programming language could simplify. This makes the code larger than necessary and less easy to understand. So it needs the right balance. From my point Oberon-07 is already too simple. Personally, I find Oberon-2 the more practical programming language (e.g. it has dynamic arrays). I also find the requirement to capitalize keywords very impractical.