Perhaps. An article currently trending on the front page about "C in practice" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9799069 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?

Perhaps. An article currently trending on the front page about "C in practice" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9799069 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9799069) helps make my point (that we barely understand the dark corners of our tools, so perhaps venturing into other territory is a bit premature.) (Also - the extent to which almost every real-life programming language makes simple things unbelievably complicated sounds like a good example of "impenetrable silos of epistemology"... "language lawyer" is an idiom for a reason. And BTW we have waaaaay less excuses for the huge barriers to understanding that we continuously erect around our work since our subject matter is not nearly as inherently fuzzy as the stuff lawyers, lawmakers and judges deal with.)