| In general, I tend to observe languages that are minimally challenging for amateurs tend to build less sustainable mutagenic ecosystems. Example: * Prolog generated the worlds most functional 1 liner code, as it is bewildering for hope-and-poke programmers * Pythons ease of use combined with out-of-band library packages became a minefield of compatibility, security, and structural problems (i.e. became the modern BASIC) * NodeJS was based on a poorly designed clown JavaScript toy language, so naturally became a circus * Modern C++ template libraries became unusable as complexity and feature creep spiraled out of control to meet everyone's pet use-case * Rust had a massive inrush of users that don't understand why llvm compilers are dangerous in some use-cases. But considering 99% of devs are in application space, they will unlikely ever need to understand why C has a different use-case. While "Goto" could just be considered a euphemism for tail-recursion in some languages. We have to remember the feature is there for a reason, but most amateurs are not careful enough to use it in the proper edge-case. I really hope Julia becomes more popular, as it is the first fun language I've seen in years that kind of balances ease of use with efficient parallelism. wrote a lot of RISC Assembly at one time... where stacks were finite, and thus one knew evil well... lol =3 |