Large vocabularies are often the most-touted advantages of computer languages though? How many people laud Python for being "batteries included" or having libra

Large vocabularies are often the most-touted advantages of computer languages though? How many people laud Python for being "batteries included" or having libraries for everything you could think of? The minimalism you're thinking of is in grammar moreso than vocabulary. Simple rules for writing correct sentences (or programs) make languages easy to pick up and get started with. Complex rules make languages harder to pick up, and lessen the chance of reaching mastery. Languages like APL, with relatively fixed instruction sets, are interesting for being somewhat analagous to alphabetic human languages where words are formed from composition of characters rather than being heiroglyphic and locking meaning within functions.