Yes, but I think it's a more wide-spread issue. Comparing languages of the European school with languages of the Anglo-Saxon school, it seems like the wide-spre

Yes, but I think it's a more wide-spread issue. Comparing languages of the European school with languages of the Anglo-Saxon school, it seems like the wide-spread anti-intellectualism in the US has a large impact on language design quality. I remember that Dijkstra had some pretty good article about it.