Empirically speaking, it seems more like rich languages are the past, present and future of programming. Rich as in, has a strong standard library. Python, go,

Empirically speaking, it seems more like rich languages are the past, present and future of programming. Rich as in, has a strong standard library. Python, go, etc. The only "little" languages I can think of that I'd reasonably ask people to use at work are lua, make(~), awk, and (ba)sh.