I think I found the answer you mean! https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3637668/why-are-scripting-languages-e-g-perl-python-and-ruby-not-suitable-as-shell/3640

I think I found the answer you mean! https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3637668/why-are-scripting-languages-e-g-perl-python-and-ruby-not-suitable-as-shell/3640403#3640403 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3637668/why-are-scriptin... — the topic matches, there's a table comparing syntax (though I wouldn't call it huge), and it includes the idea of scaling up to large programs vs scaling down to 10 character programs. (The question was deleted in July 2014 and undeleted in December 2020: https://stackoverflow.com/posts/3637668/revisions https://stackoverflow.com/posts/3637668/revisions , so right now anyone can see it. BTW with ≥10000 reputation one can see deleted posts, per https://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges https://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges and https://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges/moderator-tools https://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges/moderator-tools — e.g., as you mentioned you have ~16k points, try the much-mirrored "programmer joke" deleted question (linked from e.g. https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/76584 https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/76584).)