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The entry level language gets the reputation of the code written on the platform.
That's why basic, flash, php, Java, and JavaScript all had bad reputations at one time.
You can knock on any sufficiently complex language, it's actually really easy.
Python, for instance, gives different numerical results between 2 and 3 for the code "False - 3 * True / True / 2 + 3 * False" (-1 and -1.5)
Making things look absurd isn't hard.
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The entry level language gets the reputation of the code written on the platform.
That's why basic, flash, php, Java, and JavaScript all had bad reputations at one time.
You can knock on any sufficiently complex language, it's actually really easy.
Python, for instance, gives different numerical results between 2 and 3 for the code "False - 3 * True / True / 2 + 3 * False" (-1 and -1.5)
Making things look absurd isn't hard.