[oldandtired]

There are all sorts of reasons for using any language and there are just as many reasons for not using that language.

But the problem is not the terseness or the relevant clarity of any language or its ability to compile to fast code. It is the ability of any programmer who comes along later to make changes to that code in support of its use.

All too often, programmers want to show their [leet] skills and fail to take into consideration the poor sods who have to come after to support that code. The reality is that much [leet] code has to be discarded or completely rewritten to get something that is supportable long term.

It took me a long time to understand this and after this, I made sure that my code could be supported by others - clean, simple and comprehensible. Too much throwaway code becomes the basic infrastructure used in organisations and becomes entrenched and incomprehensible to following generations.