>> It defies belief that anybody could disagree
>
> Certainly the primitive versions of the language were pretty primitive. 
> But then, people were doing primitive things. How much of a namespace do 
> you need when your computer only has 4K of RAM?

Also, even after machines got faster and bigger, there were still benefits 
of a small primitive language.  I remember when Acorn released the first CPU 
with on-board cache, suddenly the entire BASIC interpreter could fit in the 
cache - which meant BASIC became a very fast (for an interpreted language). 
I assume more complex interpreted languages couldn't manage this.

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