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A language should be minimal, easy to learn. On top of it you can build libraries. It should NOT be build into the language... To bad thats the direction Perl went from the start. It was usefull for text formatting, if you know all the quirks... But as a language to build big systems... I would never chose it.

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LISP fan? :)

The trick of course is that then your libraries effectively define your language. There are various sweet-spots of native-language features, standard-lib features, and external libraries. I think it is a matter of taste and trade-offs.

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