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by mej10 3192 days ago
Since I am calling out the responses to you, I feel like I should do the same here.

> All the other things that people use exist as (individually) extremely simple extensions that you can learn in isolation in a few minutes.

If by "learn" you mean you can type in something that is the correct syntax, sure... but in terms of actually learning how to use them to model problems? Come on...

> Haskell is possibly the least over-engineered language out there

Javascript is pretty under-engineered. But more seriously there are several real contenders here in Smalltalk, older Scheme standards, and Go (though again that may be considered under-engineered).