> avoiding "abuse" just reads as imposing your taste onto all users of your language. I believe languages are all about bias. A language must represent the pre

> avoiding "abuse" just reads as imposing your taste onto all users of your language. I believe languages are all about bias. A language must represent the preference of the community using it. We should all learn from the case of Lisp, which is the simplest language and likely the most expressible language. The community suffered from the serious fragmentation driven by the sheer simplicity of the language and tons of NIH syndrome. It took them 30 years to get a standard CL, and another 20 years to get a de facto standard package repository (QuickLisp).