> This is where the beauty/simplicity of some programming languages Simplicity? Yes, probably (at least as long as I am writing the code and not debugging it).

> This is where the beauty/simplicity of some programming languages Simplicity? Yes, probably (at least as long as I am writing the code and not debugging it). But definitely not beauty. I find this particular behaviour the ugliest part of interpreted languages. I may make a small typo, incorrectly capitalize variable name or forget a quote and nothing will tell me that my code is wrong or where exactly it is wrong - it will silently skip the error and happily show me wrong results.