Simplicity is partially in the eye of the beholder, I agree. And there is always a subjective part about any design decisions, but overall there are better des

Simplicity is partially in the eye of the beholder, I agree. And there is always a subjective part about any design decisions, but overall there are better designs and worse designs. And concerning programming language syntax, I tend to prefer a bit of verbosity over any terseness / compactness. I prefer Java/C# style over Perl/Sed. And I think that modern system programming languages tend to drift a bit too much towards the Perl style. Writing powerful but unreadable on-liners should be considered harmful.