Everything you said is much more complicated than the simple directive I gave (as an example of functionality). You should not accuse others here of trolling,

Everything you said is much more complicated than the simple directive I gave (as an example of functionality). You should not accuse others here of trolling, you can read the guidelines here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Please be civil on HN. I further gave you an extremely difficult functionality, which I phrased as " 'analzye this library and include a logically simplified version that only needs to address these cases:' (a list of conditions.)". You ignored this. This is obviously not functionality any language includes. It is not easy or anything like that. If you don't like my examples, you can come up with your own. Pick something hard that programming languages don't do. You are correct that most programming languages have most of the same functionality, and differ only in their syntax: this was my point. For this reason there are transpilers (source to source compilers) which output a different language. If you don't like my examples, pick your own. Anyway in this comment I have already quoted myself saying such an example, which you ignored. My overall point is that most languages don't strive for such features. They most markedly just differ in syntax. You confirmed this at the top of your comment. Thanks for your additional thought, and please remember to be civil.