[C++] delete considered harmful

The unbridled use of the delete statement has as an immediate consequence that it becomes terribly hard to find a meaningful set of coordinates in which to describe the process progress. ... The delete statement as it stands is just too primitive, it is too much an invitation to make a mess of one's program.

Never use delete, use smart pointers, memory pools, stack allocations. Don't break RAII.

>>50
It's homogenous, which makes it easy to parse and to generate programmatically. There are no questions like "is the next element of this form a list or a vector" (I'm looking at you, Clojure). Plus, s-expressions are a joy to edit in a good text editor - go from start of a form to its end or vice versa, copy whole form, paste it, delete it, enclose it in another form. None of that is possible in a non-sexp language.

Another upside of s-exp syntax is that people who use it tend to not produce the Empty Space Abomination of C-like languages:
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Don't know whether it's an intelligence thing or not, but s-exps somehow teach people to use the enlightened ))))))) to finish blocks of code.