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Have you read PG's Lisp essays from years ago? He argues against your position very well. Conciseness is power.

• torpor 17y ago
  I think I've read those essays, but the fact I can't remember explicitly doing so indicates that, frankly, they didn't do too well in terms of convincing me .. my position is based on 30 years of working day and night as a professional programmer, so maybe I'm quite biased, but it is an opinion I have formed and used successfully in training others in my team to get stuff done. It doesn't matter what language you use; what matters is that you are interested in using it to get the job done. If a language contains features that don't interest you, it won't be useful: period. Ultimately, all language features must be judged by the level of interest they incur, and how that interest is applied towards making something useful with the language. That said, I'm perfectly aware of how wrong my argument can be, but like I said .. works so far ..