[maleldil]

Sure, but the fact that weird stuff is possible means that someone, at some point, will try to use it in your codebase. This might be prevented if you have a strong code review culture, but if the lead dev in the project wants to use something unusual, chances are no one will stop them. And once you start...

[jjnoakes]

If you suggest a language here where nothing weird can be done, I bet someone will reply with something weird done in that language.

[christophilus]

This is true. I’ve written overly-clever, indecipherably dense code in many different languages. But some languages seem to practically encourage that kind of thing. Compare a random sampling of code from APL, Scala, Haskell, Perl, Clojure, C, and Go. You’ll probably find that average inscrutability varies widely between various language pairs.

[kqr]

Inscrutability to whom? I'm confident someone with 10 years of production Haskell experience will do a better job of reading production Haskell code than a comparable situation with C.

But then again, maybe that was what you were saying.

[rad_gruchalski]

You say like you never looked at any Perl Golf solution.