Do you want to know the truth? I don't think there are very many people who "love" languages. Most of the people who claim to be PL aficionados are not PL aficionados but syntax aficionados. The part that is not syntax flies right by them. The syntax which is supposed to make the semantics more transparent instead makes it more opaque. Not because it's a "bad" syntax, but because it's a "good" syntax!