I suppose it's stuff like this that leads to the dozens of abandoned language implementations that litter the world of software like balled up hamburger wrapper

I suppose it's stuff like this that leads to the dozens of abandoned language implementations that litter the world of software like balled up hamburger wrappers outside a truck stop. It's enough to drive a man back to Scheme. Why do all of these sh++ languages get so much right and so much wrong? My personal preference from the list is Python, but it's full of irritants as well.