I think ascribing PL popularity to striking the right tradeoff in this respect is leaping a bit far. It's compatibility and familiarity with predecessors, marke

I think ascribing PL popularity to striking the right tradeoff in this respect is leaping a bit far. It's compatibility and familiarity with predecessors, marketing dollars, etc. They tend to have C++ style syntax for example which is a similar path-dependence-formed quirk of history.