We need less powerful languages
So, great, this is the mainstream view. It won. We got Pascal, that philosophy mutated into Java and here we are. It takes lots of code to do stuff, and that&#x27;s universally scored  as a maintainability win. All right. Who disagrees? Little pockets of Lisp hackers up in the hills?<p>Unless the argument is that we need another big wave of even weaker tools, it feels unnecessary to give this sermon in 2015.<p>(I invite people who disagree to express something concrete in reply.)