> Other languages were more idiosyncratically designed by some (often single) person, and accrued features haphazardly over time. Some of those are quite succe

> Other languages were more idiosyncratically designed by some (often single) person, and accrued features haphazardly over time. Some of those are quite successful. Top examples, and very fitting of your description are javascript and php. Interestingly, both of those made nearly the same (in my opinion wrong) descission about comparison operators and "type juggling" (php parlance).