My favorite non-discussed answer on SE or here on HN (or at least I didn't find it) is to disallow division other than as syntactic sugar for literal definition

My favorite non-discussed answer on SE or here on HN (or at least I didn't find it) is to disallow division other than as syntactic sugar for literal definitions (and just output an error message if your syntactic sugar has a zero denominator) But but but how would they ... don't worry about it, its a programming language for novices. If they knew what to do, they wouldn't be novices using a novice language anyway. I like this design because its self limiting. If they don't understand the problem, they certainly won't understand how to fix it when it breaks anyway. The problem with giving 3 year olds matches and knives and guns is not some weird inherent moral argument about the items, its because the kids have no idea how to fix some resulting problems and even the non-noobs can't fix some of the resulting problems. So don't give noobs the ability to shoot themselves in their foot. Its pretty simple. Of course a logical next extension is removal of logarithms and many other math functions. Thats OK. Its a language for noobs so it doesn't have to have a full set of arithmetic. Unless this guy is implementing the next "mathematica" or "R" or similar, in which case he has big problems.