Fun read. I grew up with small everything by default writing machine/assembly on 8-bits.
One thing about small capable languages is that they're sort of proto-languages where it's used to create a specific flavour/dialect with programming abstractions which are then used to implement a program. This is true of all languages but especially the tiny ones like assembly language or Lisp. This is the reason I believe that Lisps never got more popular because each project is it's own dialect and not applicable elsewhere. It's why Clojure a larger more opinionated language with 'batteries included' is more useful elsewhere.
One thing about small capable languages is that they're sort of proto-languages where it's used to create a specific flavour/dialect with programming abstractions which are then used to implement a program. This is true of all languages but especially the tiny ones like assembly language or Lisp. This is the reason I believe that Lisps never got more popular because each project is it's own dialect and not applicable elsewhere. It's why Clojure a larger more opinionated language with 'batteries included' is more useful elsewhere.