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The common fallacy about simple languages.

Yes the language might be simple to understand, but then the result is the complexity lands in the shoulders of developers and an ever increasing library of workarounds to compensate for missing features.

Hence why every simple language that achieves mainstream use, ends up becoming like the ones it intended to replace.



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