it's interesting how his entire class of expectations is different from mine. my focus is mostly on what facilities for abstraction and safety the language give

it's interesting how his entire class of expectations is different from mine. my focus is mostly on what facilities for abstraction and safety the language gives me; i hold that if you have powerful enough abstraction facilities to factor out boilerplate, your code can be made to be way more readable than the "only one way to do it" class of languages, and if you have safety features built into the language (static typing, abstract datatypes, contracts, linear types) it will be forced to be more reliable.