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by jjnoakes 579 days ago
If you suggest a language here where nothing weird can be done, I bet someone will reply with something weird done in that language.
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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.
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.