It's part of the essential dichotomy of programming languages. Pragmatic languages and theoretical languages (that may or may not be pragmatic). As a "working

It's part of the essential dichotomy of programming languages. Pragmatic languages and theoretical languages (that may or may not be pragmatic). As a "working" developer I've always preferred pragmatic languages (the more advanced Pascals back in the day, C#, TypeScript etc) over the theoretically "beautiful" languages. Of course the barriers are permeable and we often get the useful parts from the theoretically beautiful languages eventually and that's great - I trust the creators of the pragmatic languages to apply taste to which features we eventually do get.