There is some complexity that needs to be in a language. Why? Because applications are complex. The complexity will therefore either live in the language or in

There is some complexity that needs to be in a language. Why? Because applications are complex. The complexity will therefore either live in the language or in you. If it lives in you, the language is being unhelpful. For a prime example of this, look at Assembly. It provides nothing and is as simple as possible; it’s just a transparent wrapper around machine code. Yet it’s incredibly complex to write Assembly code.