Let me say this.

I'd started using metastock 7 years ago, version 6.something, and during the following years I also used tradestation and wealthlab.

My goal was to find the best language to start with. Tradestation seemed much more comprehensive in terms of writing and reading the formula itself. Then came wealthlab and again, a much more comprehensive language for the newbie guy.

Unfortunately none of them had what MS has, versatility in work with the chart manually, meaning writing on it, designing trendlines, zoom in/out well, every manually aspect of manipulating a chart.

I read somewhere long time ago that the problem with MS is not the language restrictions itself but what people want to do with them.
People are always trying to do the impossible. It's like when you blame others for your own mistakes.

I love MS, and because of that I decided to forget the existence of other languages.
Roy, Jose and others shows us all that it is possible to work with MSFL and do virtually everything that we want. Certainly that MSFL has a lot of handicaps in terms of readability. Just thinking how wealthlab scripts look like with different colours for statements and functions.

One thing must me said though, wealthlab although having one of the best supports team I ever saw, when they were bought by Fidelity that support went way down.
In terms of help given by the forum users, well they are hand to hand with what we see here and other MS forums. They are always ready to help you.

In terms of MS10 itself, it's a disappointing release, no doubt about it although I decided to pay the $499 for it. It was a kind of statement that I need to do for myself for personal reasons that I don’t need discuss here.

Maybe MS11 can produce something worthwhile.

Meanwhile, MS for me personally, it's the best thing for TA.

Regards
arnie