Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful.
Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix.
A smart terminal is not a smartass terminal, but rather a terminal you can educate.
Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.
Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.
Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic.