Wait, are there programming languages where as a codebase grows, it doesn't get more complex? I've worked on reasonably large codebases in Perl, C, C++, Java,

Wait, are there programming languages where as a codebase grows, it doesn't get more complex? I've worked on reasonably large codebases in Perl, C, C++, Java, and Modula-II, and I'd say that in all cases, as the codebase grew, it got more complex and harder to contribute to.