People saying "backwards to Go" instantly reminds me of the following quote:

Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?

        — Edsger W. Dijkstra

Interestingly, ALGOL failed because it was too complicated to implement.. And Djikstra played a huge role in the formulation of that language.

Why aren't you using ALGOL?

ALGOL-60 saw fine use in its day; Dijkstra criticized ALGOL-68, which indeed failed because it was too complicated to implement.

Hmmm... It is interesting how many years urban myths can persist.... 45 years and counting....

"In December 1968 the report on the Algorithmic language ALGOL 68 was published. On 20–24 July 1970 a working conference was arranged by the IFIP to discuss the problems of implementation of the language,[1] a small team from the Royal Radar Establishment attended to present their compiler, written by I.F. Currie, Susan G. Bond[2] and J.D. Morrison. In the face of estimates of up to 100 man-years to implement the language, using up to 7 pass compilers they described how they had already implemented a one-pass compiler which was in production use in engineering and scientific applications."

cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_68-R

Too complicated for its time or in absolute terms ? It surely did a lot.