With regard to development tools, maybe he was referring to libraries and community support. Perl, a slow language criticized for its syntax and bearing the st

With regard to development tools, maybe he was referring to libraries and community support. Perl, a slow language criticized for its syntax and bearing the stigma of being a mere scripting language, is often lauded as having huge community support and tons of helpful (even if often crappy) libraries via CPAN. C++ has similar support (no CPAN that I am aware of, but I have always quickly found solutions and libraries with the search engine). Granted, CL can connect via U/CFFI to any external library, but it is harder to find the wrappers for CL than C/C++ header files.