Simple in what way though?
Simple to learn for beginners?
Simple to use?
Simple under the hood?
Simple, how?
I actually had an ‘interesting’ conversation relating to this with a fairly famous twit on twitter - he was trying to tell me Ruby wasn’t a good language for beginners. I was trying to tell him that for me, as a beginner, it was the best language - because all of the other languages I looked at (back then) actually put me off.
He couldn’t wrap his head around this - but for me it was crystal clear, Ruby was amazing because if I hadn’t found it I almost certainly would not have got into programming. So what good is a language if doesn’t exist? (i.e. all the other languages that I wouldn’t have been using because I wouldn’t have been programming.)
He got quite nasty - told me I should quit blogging! 
Ryan Bates came to my rescue 
