I once had a college professor say something like, "Don't criticize a language for what it can't do, rather look at what it does well." He explained this by sa

I once had a college professor say something like, "Don't criticize a language for what it can't do, rather look at what it does well." He explained this by saying that most languages were designed for a specific purpose, and tradeoffs are always made that cause some parts of a language to be bad at certain tasks. Not sure if this is universally true, but I felt it was sound reasoning.