> These [low elegance] languages are solidly in the upper left hand [high utility]. This may be the result of survivor bias. Of course there are also non-eleg

> These [low elegance] languages are solidly in the upper left hand [high utility]. This may be the result of survivor bias. Of course there are also non-elegant languages that aren't useful, but these won't appear in such a diagram, because nobody remembers or uses them anymore. (Exceptions may be esoteric/fun languages like Brainfuck, although these could be considered "elegant" from a certain point of view.)