Comment by kibwen
9 hours ago
An elegant language is one that achieves a lot with very little. Forth and Scheme are elegant languages. You're free to like working in C++, and you can sure achieve a lot with it, but I don't think it's controversial to say that it does not do so with very little.
It's easy to make a minimal language that can technically do everything via Turing completeness. That can look elegant until you start writing reptitive or hard to read code with it. Golang "if err" is a classic.
Makes sense. This appears to be also a symptom of whatever you work on most (or start with), your brain starts to absorb that into its way of thinking.
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