>The problem is now how complex a language is, but how much needless complexity it allows you to build yourself. Any Turing-compelete language allows you to bu

>The problem is now how complex a language is, but how much needless complexity it allows you to build yourself. Any Turing-compelete language allows you to build arbitrarily much needless complexity. I don't see how it's a useful metric at all, except to say, "Well, this language isn't quite so horribly stunted that you can't even produce a nonterminating program." If you want to talk about how easy it is to build needless complexity— well, I've yet to see a programming language that knows the difference between necessary complexity and needless complexity well enough to allow the former and prevent the latter. Rather, languages either let you build complex things easily, whether you need that complexity or not, or they just make it a right pain in the ass to accomplish anything. Personally, I prefer the languages that let me express the complexity of my problem domain easily; sure, I could use them to make things more complex than they need to be, but I don't, because to be quite frank that's just part of being a competent programmer.