> Piss poor string handling functions out of the box? Don't know what you mean by this. As for the other things; like I said, getting first class functions ri

> Piss poor string handling functions out of the box? Don't know what you mean by this. As for the other things; like I said, getting first class functions right makes those other things unimportant. Are you running into the problems with DateTime that often? I can't even remember what those problems are. I don't doubt they exist, but I think you're over-inflating the importance.