You could also portray this as yet another case of theory trumping practice, which is also symptomatic of modernism. The idea that a language based on a small,

You could also portray this as yet another case of theory trumping practice, which is also symptomatic of modernism. The idea that a language based on a small, elegant set of composable primitives is inherently better for programming in the large as well has not been borne out in practice.