and for say, chemistry or astronomy, that's less of problem. It's like if all computer science research had been done exclusively with, say, ruby, which doesn't

and for say, chemistry or astronomy, that's less of problem. It's like if all computer science research had been done exclusively with, say, ruby, which doesn't allow functions to be passed as arguments. For lots of things that doesn't matter, but some of the limitations of the grammar constrain or deter certain questions.