> I feel like those assertions are more socially-founded opinions than technically-backed arguments You think the complaints about rickety, unintuitive syntax

> I feel like those assertions are more socially-founded opinions than technically-backed arguments You think the complaints about rickety, unintuitive syntax are "socially founded"? I can't think of another language that has so many pointless syntax issues every time I revisit it. I haven't seen a line of Scheme in over a decade, and I'm still fairly sure I could write a simple if condition with less likelihood of getting it wrong than Bash. I came at it from the other end, writing complex shell scripts for years because of the intuition that python would be overkill. But there was a moment when I realized how irrational this was: shell languages are enough of a garbage fire that Python was trivially the better choice for my scripts the minute flow control enters the picture.