simpler

The language is simpler but it becomes harder to actually use.

However, as you sort of alluded to, this encoding is much simpler if your language supports subtyping.

Seriously, in many ways the economic history of the last decade and a half has been simpler....

Object oriented programming feels to me like it is primarily an abstraction about computers not the world...and the simpler abstraction of dispatch works better for me because it is simply simpler.

You know how to have productive technical discussions and how to make things as simple as possible, but no simpler.

Most reports are about a page with a much simpler template, and posted right to GitHub.

From more subjective perspective, I would say that Java specification is written using much simpler language, but that does mean that it is less precise.

We start from monochrome blueprints which help us get better feedback and achieve simpler solutions in a shorter length of time.

Do you think complex languages are simpler to teach, debug, optimize, and understand?

The code looks simpler, but understanding what's really happening is a lot harder.

I find it simpler to grasp than squeak because there are less things to understand at the same time.

I find it simpler to grasp than seaside because there are less things to understand at the same time.

Don't you mean "simpler to grasp than Squeak"?

Since javascript's formal language spec doesn't have a feature for default params, it is "simpler" and "easier to learn".

> "Hello world" is simpler now than it has ever been.

My hiring success (in terms of impact the new hires made) went way up when we stopped wording job postings using traditional enterprisy language & bullets and instead posted much simpler "hackers wanted" at the local universities.