Perl is pretty concise, but the list of criticisms above are almost meaningless. Who releases the first version of a language with most of the time spent on the

Perl is pretty concise, but the list of criticisms above are almost meaningless. Who releases the first version of a language with most of the time spent on the optimiser? Perl 6 loses quite a bit of the Write Only type syntax, and should be very succinct and expressive, but people just type nonsense :(