> I've talked to plenty of people whose eyes light up when you tell them 5 + 1 2 3 just works in the language.
This is literally "people who like it say they like it". It's like saying that the value proposition of Python is having list comprehension, when that's just syntactic sugar.
And no, it's not just me, you just have to take a look at the comments or even the OP. The only point being made is that it has very powerful array programming primitives, but those functions can be easily brought to other languages (and indeed a lot of them have those primitives).
This is literally "people who like it say they like it". It's like saying that the value proposition of Python is having list comprehension, when that's just syntactic sugar.
And no, it's not just me, you just have to take a look at the comments or even the OP. The only point being made is that it has very powerful array programming primitives, but those functions can be easily brought to other languages (and indeed a lot of them have those primitives).