Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naïve or a salesman. - Bjarne Stroustrup

Maybe "just one little global variable" isn't too unmanageable, but that style leads to code that is useless except to its original programmer.

People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't.

The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close. For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.