Lukand wrote:
I frequently do the equation:
high-level programming language = easy and beginner programming language
Not to sound like a broken record on this subject, but... have you ever studied languages such as Clojure, Smalltalk, Scala, Prolog, or Erlang? I assure you, those are not limited in the way you seem to be thinking. Some of them are limited in other ways, perhaps (Prolog in particular comes to mind), but trust me, they are far more advanced, and far more expressive, than C or even C++ could ever dream of being.
Or to put it another way: do you think that SQL is for beginners? I may have my issues with it being a rather broken implementation of relational algebra, but as a language it is highly declarative and quite powerful, despite not having many things most programmers consider necessary parts of a full language (such as explicit loop constructs). It is a domain-specific language, and really not any use for anything other that querying a database, but in its domain it is quite powerful (though it could be far more powerful still if it were designed better... no, damn it, I am not going to let myself get into that here, I've
written that rant enough times elsewhere (NSFW language in the thread, so be careful) and don't need to repeat it).