Paradoxically, the simplicity itself can be part of the confusion: the anemic "for loop" syntax, crazy conditional expressions to work around that lack of "if"

Paradoxically, the simplicity itself can be part of the confusion: the anemic "for loop" syntax, crazy conditional expressions to work around that lack of "if" statements, combine this with "count" and you can get some weird stuff. It becomes a flavor all its own.