Interestingly, just recently, Neil Mitchell has published an article claiming that this is a fallacy and in practice, people are forced to back-pedal on it.
Ban recursion and unbounded loops. Proclaim the language is "Turing incomplete" and that all programs terminate.
Declare that Turing incomplete programs are simpler. Have non-technical people conflate terminate quickly with terminate eventually.
Realise lacking recursion makes things incredibly clunky to express, turning simple problems into brain teasers.
Add recursion.
Realise that the everything is better.
