Coming from the Perl 6 project, it feels to me like design is a major part of modern computer languages, like Perl 6 and ES6+. Perl 6 started with its design d

Coming from the Perl 6 project, it feels to me like design is a major part of modern computer languages, like Perl 6 and ES6+. Perl 6 started with its design documents[0] -- the apocalypses led to the exegeses, which finally settled into a synopsis. The Perl 6 language itself is not any of these: The test suite defines the language, but the reasons they are the way they are came first. It has design features like hyperoperators to make parallel code easier to write -- which of course should encourage people to write parallel code. Perl 5 is explicitly a postmodern language[1], and Perl 6 is the same but more. From my point of view, Python looks like it has a strong modernist philosophy. So I'm not really getting where OP is coming from. [0]: https://design.perl6.org https://design.perl6.org [1]: http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html